Good example of the goals of homeschooling and private religious schools. An army of ignorant sycophants at your beck and call
I listen to certain podcast uhumh people and they're falling over themselves for home schooling. And school vouchers.
And I'm over here pissed that the only way I can at least give my kid a chance at a decent school education is to go private. Our public schools have been systematically eroded to the point of barely being called daycare so the only way to give my kid a chance to actually learn is a private school that has the resources and small class sizes.
Imo, education should not be paywalled. Everyone should have equal access to quality education and not just "memorize these facts" and "be a good worker for the overlords" but actually be encouraged to think and understand the world as it is and how it can be
Education should be funded at least as well as our neverending war machine we call the armed forces. War against ignorance would make the world a much better place
“The American school system is failing you.”
“I was homeschooled dimwit.”
“Literally proving my point.”
“(rage)”
I've met a decent amount of homeschooled kids, and though most were "smart" none were really knowledgeable about most things.
You really need to have been home schooled to think that mentioning it is a flex.
Shit I was homeschooled and I tend to keep that on the DL just due to the stigma lol. Really sucks that fundies like this ruin something that can really be beneficial for some kids. I'd stress the worst offenders of homeschooling stem from religious fundamentalism and it can be done very successfully in a secular household.
We homeschooled our kids while we lived in Utah simply to avoid the religious fundamentalism. But we definitely also knew religious people who “homeschooled” their children, who ended up completely unable to read at age 10. Turns out spending time with the pigs doesn’t constitute a well-balanced education.
Same. I tend not to mention it, especially IRL. I fucking loved it, and feel like I got a much better education than most public schools offer. But fucking fundamentalists make me feel like if someone finds out then they're going to assume I'm a cousin fucker who thinks the planet is 300 years old and that Jesus rode a dinosaur to rescue America from the communists.
I was raised young earth evangelical and home schooled K-12.
That is not a flex, I have just summarized the trauma that is defining my middle years of life as I deconstruct and unpack it - now that I recognize it as the trauma that it is.
Good on you for realizing it and working to fix it ! Unfortunately many have fallen for the lies they were fed and never will realize it.
Right wing motherfuckers who froth at their mouth complaining against making ultra rich pay their fair share have annual family income of $45k
They wouldn't want to make more money because that would mean they'd have to pay a higher tax rate. Don't try to explain how tax brackets actually work because you'll just make them angry for highlighting their ignorance.
In all fairness, no one actually teaches what communism is because then everyone would be a communist.
Well 90 to 95 percent of us would be. The other 5-10 percent would be afraid to have their wealth redistributed, and would do anything they could to not let it happen. Kind of like what they do now.
I have never seen a home schooled person who wasn't a complete shitshow.
That's because the ones who aren't keep it a secret.
Seriously. I was homeschooled K-12, but in real life I only mention it when asked, and it feels embarrassing.
Yeah, we don't have homeschooling in my country, it's just not allowed and I feel like most people would assume you are mega weird. I'd automatically assume some brainwashed maga cultist flat earther anti vaxxer.
IMO the only time homeschooling makes sense is if your mom is a teacher that became disabled or something and it was more practical to teach you at home.
Otherwise it's just a huge waste of time and missed opportunity to make friends and learn social interactions
I was homeschooled and like to think I am only half a shitshow, whilst unapologetically and enthusiastically supporting Harris and Walz.
*Important context, my entire immediate and extended family is far-right, including my mother who did said homeschooling. She and my brother were at Jan 6th and, I suspect, were in the Capitol. Though I have not found them on any videos.
I was homeschooled K-12 and I'm definitely a shitshow... But at least my parents were just hippies, not Christians
I love how this person thinks being homeschooled is a flex
"Not only was I poorly educated but I also don't know how to socialize."
One of the first rules of homeschool is instilling your child with a fear and hatred of the outside world.
my siblings are like this. I'm embarrassed to admit to it, but they run around telling other people that their public education was shit and being homeschooled is so superior lol. i don't understand it other than maybe they're coping. I've worked hard to overcome being homeschooled and actively try to educate myself.
every post war consensus policy in regards to collectivizing power from the wealthy and redistributing to everyone else
Am I reading this pretentious word salad right? Is this guy saying that communism has been the political consensus in the US since the fucking WW2?
And by god is he trying to show off he has read two or three books in his life with that vocabulary.
I think he's saying that democracy (equalizing political power) has been the political consensus in the US since WW2.
And he's obviously against it.
Harris is explicitly a communist.
Man, I wish.
Trump: "Harris is gonna take away your private health insurance."
Me: "You son of a bitch. How dare you threaten me with a good time that is clearly never going to happen."
I'm here to kick ass and teach theory and I'm done teaching theory.
at least he admits that he's a dimwit.
So he admits the country is an oligarchy and wants it to stay that way?
It's what God intended when he founded the United States of Jesus!
‘Collectivizing power from the wealthy’ also known as… democracy? Is the anti-communist just saying the quiet part out loud here?
The rich don't like actual democracy because nothing would really stop the majority of not-rich from democratically deciding to redistribute wealth and privilege toward a more egalitarian situation. Hence, anti-democratic. He's just reaching the authoritarian goal from a different angle.
The rich can't really construct democracies. At best, they like censitary/census suffrage - where voting power is weighed (proportional to) personal wealth.
"collectivizing" 😂
But but I thought power was supposed to be in the hands of the elected? Not some modern Aristocracy?
What ... Uh ... What are the numbers on homeschooled kids again? Three million? A year?!?
Maybe it's time to start looking at those European immigration requirements.
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