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Devastating! You just saw a take that you don't agree with! This is a check for reading comprehension and the practice of good faith. 

Analyze 

What emotion was this intended to inspire?

What was the goal the speaker was trying to achieve?

How could this be interpreted differently?

Is there context that would change the meaning?

Is the speaker qualified?

Reflect

What is your first reaction and why did you have that specific reaction?

Is it an issue that is harming you and/or did the group being harmed directly state that this harms them?

Do you accept the consequences that could result from interacting?

Is the speaker someone you can reason with?

What assumptions are you making about the speaker?

Speak

What is the goal of your words?

What audience are you catering towards?

Are you talking to the person with respect?

How could your words be interpreted differently?

Source

Painted wooden chest with Hebrew inscriptions, Eastern Europe, late 19th century AD. Private Collection.⁣

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Homeschooling (yes, that includes unschooling) consolidates massive amounts of power into the hands of parents. Homeschooling causes horrific abuse and isolation.

The homeschooling movement is far-right and blatantly pro-abuse. The HSLDA called a man who kept children in cages a “hero.” They has helped to block the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child AND the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, has backed legislation banning both same-sex marriage and civil unions, and helped kill a bill that would define isolation as abuse, among countless other offenses. Its founder, Michael Farris, wrote in his dramatized narrative of CPS “stealing” children from their Christian homeschooling parents that hitting children to the point of bruising is not abuse.

Libby Ann has extensively documented HSLDA’s support of abuse, including praising abusers and attempting to block all bills that define abuse more strictly, even if “more strictly” simply expands the definition to include bruises and welts.

HOMESCHOOLING IS THE BEST POSSIBLE WAY TO ENABLE CHILD ABUSE.

You know how we on the left are opposed to nuclear families because they are a historical outlier from the larger multigenerational households humans have largely had across history? Because nuclear families isolate kids so that if one or two adults in their life fail them they have no recourse?

Schools can be regulated to be better to disabled children. Much better solution than funneling disabled children out of the reach of authorities.

With that being said…

Disability rights activists fought for decades to be allowed equal rights and access to public schooling and IDEA, which was only passed in 1979, is under threat of repeal by the Trump administration because they believe parents should “handle kids themselves” or better yet just institutionalize them. This combined with threats to Section 504 and other laws which mandate accommodations mark concerted efforts to force disabled children out of public life entirely and is part of the right-wing anti-social safety net agenda homeschoolers push specifically because they actively want parents to have absolute legal and practical authority over their children—which means, in reality, impunity to abuse.

It is absolutely spitting on the legacy of disabled activists like Judith Heumann, many of whom got their start as young people self-advocating for their own rights to be educated to condone the prioritization of homeschooling.

A bit more info/stats but it is, obviously, related to child abuse of all kinds so cut for that.

Hi! That sounds like a very exciting parenting challenge. I have a whole bunch of channels I follow, see if there's any here you'd enjoy :)

suckerpinch - Tom 7 is a certified Computer Science Guy, and on his YouTube channel he makes these lovely videos on his weird programming projects, supplemented with silly drawings.

Sheafification of g - This channel has rapidfire irreverent presentations of math subjects, usually about category theory and its applications to logic and functional programming. This is probably my favourite math channel on YouTube right now, and it's the most similar to my own style of writing posts.

Sebastian Lague - He's an indie game developer who in recent years has found his stride making extremely well-presented videos on his own small exploratory projects called "Coding Adventures", usually on one specific technique in gamedev or computer graphics.

3blue1brown - I think everyone knows this channel, but it nevers hurts to include. Beautifully animated videos on all sorts of math subjects.

Numberphile - Very well known. Relatively short videos of mathematicians as they explain math subjects, oftentimes number theory, by writing with black markers on big sheets of brown paper. I don't watch all their videos but many of them are very interesting.

The Gray Cuber - Short animated videos on a variety of math subjects, usually either group theory or funny things you can do with numbers. In the past year or so he's really leaned into a very silly presentational style which does make me chuckle, and he has a knack for finding interesting ideas to really play around with.

Joseph Newton - Very lovely explainers on what I think are really interesting math subjects. Plus I like his voice.

optozorax - In my opinion one of the most exciting programming/math/physics projects currently on YouTube. They're investigating ways of modelling portals (like from the video game Portal), and how to make sense of what happens when they move or accelerate, or when they affect gravity, or pass through one another. Really really cool original work, including interactive web demos.

Mathemaniac - Animated explainers on math and physics, aiming to leverage visuals to create new intuition. I'm especially excited about his current series on differential forms.

Zundamon's Theorem - Two text-to-speech characters talk about math subjects in a sort of Socratic dialogue. Usually the subjects are interesting ways of looking at or generalizing familiar concepts from school mathematics.

Michael Penn - Presentations on lots of different math subjects, though oftentime he's running through either a long calculation or a proof of a single statement. Usually number theory or calculus, and always just him in front of a chalkboard talking to the camera. And that's a good place to stop.

webgoatguy - Cute short videos, working through solving elementary (meaning 'not a lot of theory necessary') problems while scribbling in a drawing program.

jacobneu - Animated explainers in a nice style, about topics related to homotopy type theory.

2swap - Animated explainers! These ones have some really stunning visualizations that help solve the presented problems. Also they're really into Connect 4 so there's a bunch of videos on that.