Speaking as someone who was homeschooled by people like this K-12, it’s all about control. They only home school because it’s the only way to control what their children learn, but if they can control what all children learn, well, that will do just fine.
So like I get what you’re getting at, but even in the most altruistic choice to honeschool a child, where you are doing it so you can best meet their educational needs, wouldnt it still be a control level decision? You’d be choosing homeschool over public so you could have more control over meeting your childs needs
I’m not sure what you’re trying to say, exactly. People homeschool for a variety of reasons; sometimes that is to have more control over the learning schedule or to have more control over the level of stimulation a child receives. Most of these seem like responses to an emergent circumstance rather than a wholesale rejection of a system of learning.
That seems like an unnecessary distinction though, since I already specified that this is about controlling what children can learn, not how or when.
My parents didn’t homeschool me to accommodate a strange schedule or to ease any kind of social anxiety I had. They homeschooled me to prevent me from encountering anything that would challenge the idea that the God literally made the earth in 7 days six thousand years ago and that the Bible was the literal and perfect word of God.
Yeah ok, my bad, It was a reading fail on my part. You did indeed specify what they wanted to control and I entirely missed that and read it as control in general, so not only was I being pedantic, I was also wrong xD. Sorry about that!
Speaking as someone who was homeschooled by people like this K-12, it’s all about control. They only home school because it’s the only way to control what their children learn, but if they can control what all children learn, well, that will do just fine.
So like I get what you’re getting at, but even in the most altruistic choice to honeschool a child, where you are doing it so you can best meet their educational needs, wouldnt it still be a control level decision? You’d be choosing homeschool over public so you could have more control over meeting your childs needs
I’m not sure what you’re trying to say, exactly. People homeschool for a variety of reasons; sometimes that is to have more control over the learning schedule or to have more control over the level of stimulation a child receives. Most of these seem like responses to an emergent circumstance rather than a wholesale rejection of a system of learning.
That seems like an unnecessary distinction though, since I already specified that this is about controlling what children can learn, not how or when.
My parents didn’t homeschool me to accommodate a strange schedule or to ease any kind of social anxiety I had. They homeschooled me to prevent me from encountering anything that would challenge the idea that the God literally made the earth in 7 days six thousand years ago and that the Bible was the literal and perfect word of God.
Seems like a different conversation entirely.
Yeah ok, my bad, It was a reading fail on my part. You did indeed specify what they wanted to control and I entirely missed that and read it as control in general, so not only was I being pedantic, I was also wrong xD. Sorry about that!