I am the father of two children, a daughter age 12, a son age 8. Neither have attended public school (or private). We teach them at home for many things, other lessons we procure elsewhere. The external classes include: taekwondo, judo, ballet, gymnastics, art, music, and perhaps soon boxing and/or brazilian jujitsu. There are others as well, but covid has interfered more than we might like (both a photography and stage directing course have been or will soon be canceled).
I myself was forced to go to school, homeschooling wasn’t an option in the 1980s and 1990s. This was used against my mother once, when her complaints about bullies on the school bus had them threaten to have me thrown off the bus, her not having a car and us living rurally meant I wouldn’t be able to attend, and truancy was a crime them. This wasn’t just some imagined threat, but the sort that was made clear with a wink and a nudge. That’s how forced public education will be used of course. As a weapon against those the petty bureaucrats dislike, and as a trap so that adolescent torturers never have to chase their victims far.
I am naturally reluctant to endorse the idea of mandatory public schooling. But you implore “How will we indoctrinate your children!?!” I would say to that “just forget that we are here, and we will make no trouble for you”.
I am the father of two children, a daughter age 12, a son age 8. Neither have attended public school (or private). We teach them at home for many things, other lessons we procure elsewhere. The external classes include: taekwondo, judo, ballet, gymnastics, art, music, and perhaps soon boxing and/or brazilian jujitsu. There are others as well, but covid has interfered more than we might like (both a photography and stage directing course have been or will soon be canceled).
I myself was forced to go to school, homeschooling wasn’t an option in the 1980s and 1990s. This was used against my mother once, when her complaints about bullies on the school bus had them threaten to have me thrown off the bus, her not having a car and us living rurally meant I wouldn’t be able to attend, and truancy was a crime them. This wasn’t just some imagined threat, but the sort that was made clear with a wink and a nudge. That’s how forced public education will be used of course. As a weapon against those the petty bureaucrats dislike, and as a trap so that adolescent torturers never have to chase their victims far.
I am naturally reluctant to endorse the idea of mandatory public schooling. But you implore “How will we indoctrinate your children!?!” I would say to that “just forget that we are here, and we will make no trouble for you”.