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Homeschooling hits record numbers

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193 points bilsbie | 7 comments | 21 Nov 25 00:31 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
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csense ◴[21 Nov 25 02:04 UTC] No.46000402[source]▶
Anecdotally, two factors at work here:

- Schools have stopped educating in favor of test metrics, making sure the worst students pass, and pushing borderline indoctrination of controversial, left-ish values.

- With remote education during the pandemic, people have more visibility into their school's day-to-day teaching.

It's hard to fix the US education system by political means. If you have the ability to do so, it's comparatively much easier to pull your kids out and homeschool them.

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ponooqjoqo ◴[21 Nov 25 04:22 UTC] No.46001208[source]▶
> pushing borderline indoctrination of controversial, left-ish values

Which values? I haven't gone to school in a long time.

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1. andrewmlevy ◴[21 Nov 25 19:39 UTC] No.46008100[source]▶
Lots of examples, gender identity and requiring ethnic studies (focusing on white male privilege, settler/colonial, putting groups into binary oppressor/oppressed). Also issues with requiring those classes vs not.
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2. voxl ◴[21 Nov 25 20:27 UTC] No.46008595[source]▶
These are two indisputable facts about our world, if you disagree you are wrong and anti-science:

1. Gender is a social construct

2. Whiteness is a social construct and in particular has been used as a bludgeon against minority "non-whites" in the United States for a very long time

If you do not believe these things you are the problem. You lack education. You lack critical thinking. You are brainwashed.

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3. dfxm12 ◴[21 Nov 25 20:29 UTC] No.46008609[source]▶
You've identified examples of values, but you have forgotten to link them to the left, forgotten to show if they are controversial and, probably most importantly, forgotten to show how schools are borderline pushing indoctrination of them.
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4. abbycurtis33 ◴[21 Nov 25 21:13 UTC] No.46009061[source]▶
Each of those is well within public knowledge.
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5. ryandrake ◴[21 Nov 25 22:24 UTC] No.46009740{3}[source]▶
In other words, "Trust me, bro!"
6. throwaway-11-1 ◴[21 Nov 25 22:31 UTC] No.46009801[source]▶
Literally nobody forces groups into a good/bad binary more than conservatives. What an embarrassing lack of self awareness

(source: I went to a conservative christian school)

7. abbycurtis33 ◴[22 Nov 25 00:16 UTC] No.46010710[source]▶
Gender is obvious and unchangeable. Everything else is a mental health issue, and truly sad.