I feel like a majority of homeschooling books being written by public school teachers who realized public school doesn't work when they had kids of their own should say something
I also feel like the Nazi party banning homeschooling in order to force propaganda and get rid of diversity of thought should also say something
I'd be more sympathetic to pro-homeschooling arguments if it didn't primarily exist in the us for the purpose of religious indoctrination
Maybe in Germany the nazis liked public school, but in America, they don't, because for as bad as our education system is, it's at least nominally supposed to explain things like evolution & physics
I dunno when I became moots with you, but that ends today. The alternate universe I come from is my fucking reality, as a Black American homeschooled student with my non-teacher mother.
Your requirement that people should be a "teacher at minimum" because it "just makes sense" actually doesn't when you consider that disabled and Black families are far less likely to hold a degree than their white, abled counterparts, whether it's due to money, lack of opportunity, discrimination, etc. My mother was a self-educator at heart and taught the same to her children. She didn't need a teaching degree. She taught us how to teach ourselves.
Additionally, I'd like to point out that there is currently no correlation of a rise in abuse between homeschoolers and public and private schoolers. The people who abuse their homeschooling kids? I assure you, they would still abuse them in public school. "Oh, but the teachers would notice!" That's assuming the teachers aren't the ones doing the abusing themselves.
By your logic, why end it at homeschooling? Maybe to be a parent period you should have a teaching degree! Or a parenting degree! Oh, wait! That's eugenics!
The fact of the matter is anybody can be an abuser. The issue is the people, not the act. And when you start to regulate it, it becomes a tool to allow the people who need it (poc, queer folk, disabled folk) to be oppressed and the people who don't (cishet white Christian bigots) to abuse it. I once worked for a homeschooling company and had to help a lesbian family get their records together because their state was giving them shit for homeschooling their child. You are adding to your own oppression, whether it is you personally, or your people.
You state that Americans "don't like public schools", but if that's the case, then ummmmmmm why are they trying to ban all the books there about BLM and queer relationships and climate change? I assure you, as soon as they do have the public schools in their hands, they will have a 180 on homeschooling. Because, again, homeschooling was never the issue, it's the people and their need to control. And by constantly making it harder to homeschool (or, as some people seem to think, banning it all together), you are giving them exactly the tools to eventually teach kids their propaganda, yes, instead of evolution and physics.
And listen. I don't think families should do whatever they want. They should notify the school board that they're homeschooling. They should have the child see a doctor once a year and a dentist twice a year to make sure everything's on the up and up.
But qualified to be a public school teacher? The very thing we are trying to break away from? Really?
Especially in America, that you are also complaining about, that is quickly becoming more fascist. Where it is very likely that Black and disabled and openly queer folk will likely have a harder time getting those qualifications? This is the time we need to protect and educate about homeschooling, not shit on it. I'm not being "unilaterally positive", I am trying to add positivity for a demographic that has been shit on for years since I was homeschooling (and very likely before!).
This was not me trying to start an argument or force anything on anyone. This was me venting about being sick of hearing the negativity of something that I loved doing growing up and have studied multiple times in school and work with constantly, even now.
And here you are adding to it! Congrats! Do me a favor and next time you see something from someone that you don't agree with—just fucking block them, okay? Or make your own post. Not everything on the internet needs to be a damn argument.
...Anyway, read Teenage Liberation Handbook, and also The Joy of Slow (this is by a Black woman!), and also The Homeschool Advantage (by a neurodivergent mother!), and also Modern Miss Mason (Christian family, but the writer believes in teaching about diversity and other points of views) and look at some researched stats on homeschooling and like...just learn call out bigotry without pushing all homeschoolers down?
Like, you really could have just scrolled by, but you had to say I lived in an alternate universe? As if I'm not talking from experience? Genuinely wtf is wrong with you?
I never said anything about child abuse. Obviously child abuse won't be affected by the presence or absence of public schooling. I also said nothing about needing a degree to be a parent: I think teachers need to be qualified to be teachers. I do not think that argument implies parents need to always be teachers. I simply said we should hold homeschool teachers to the same standards we hold public school teachers to. If you want to teach children, you should have a teaching degree. Most people don't need a teaching degree because most people are not trying to be teachers.
If you think that argument is a slippery slope to eugenics, you could make the same case about any other job qualification. For example, I think only doctors should be allowed to practice medicine -- this does not mean parents aren't allowed to put a bandaid on their child without a medical license, that would be ridiculous, but it does mean that if a parent insists on treating their child by themselves without ever taking them to a doctor, that parent should be as qualified as a doctor. That does not imply every parent needs a medical license, but ones who want to practice medicine on their children do. The skillets of a parent overlap with those of a teacher, but they are not the same thing, & simply being a parent does not qualify one to teach professionally.
Yes, once public schools are sufficiently eroded, fascists will ban homeschooling. But for now, they're pro-homeschooling, so homeschooling is currently a net negative for society. The fact that will likely change in the next 2-8 years does not make my point about it being on average bad in the current us political climate incorrect.
Homeschooling is bad when fascists do it. Public schooling is bad when fascists do it. Homeschooling is good when leftists do it. Public schooling is good when leftists do it.
Your homeschooling, from what little I know of your politics, is probably better than your local public schooling. But, on average, homeschooling skews right, so it would, right here right now, be a public good to ban it. Once it swings the other way & becomes predominantly leftist, it would be good for it to be legal.
I do apologize for saying you live in an alternate universe though. That was pointlessly mean.
