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   Daddy-O of the 7 Wonders (daddyo@noauthority.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Oct-2024 02:47:25 JST Daddy-O of the 7 Wonders

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   Hey, now-a-days if a kid can make it to adulthood without having their genitals mutilated, being brainwashed into a sexual perversion cult, or be a frothing at the mouth communist libtard (or all of the above), then that's a huge win which puts them far ahead of most of their peers.

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     Inscius (inscius@noauthority.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Oct-2024 01:12:42 JST Inscius

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     @Zonz @DaddyO Imho, Homeschooling is a light in the tunnel.🙂 🙏 Here in Sweden, homeschooling is illegal! Some families leave the country, for the possibility to home school without govt harassment. (I don't mean the immigrants who send kids off to the country they "fled" from.)
     Mentioning homeschooling is often like saying something critical (or even factual) about abortion. It triggers a lot of people. It's scary to think out of the state ideology box. The idiocracy is tiring...

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     Zonz (zonz@noauthority.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Oct-2024 01:12:43 JST Zonz

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     After Houston ISD closed down in 2020 because of the Covid panic, the ONLY direction we received from the Superintendent was that they would remain open for the government meals program they had for poor families. That's IT. It took these assholes weeks to talk about what they were going to do about schooling, but "free meals program?" No worries, no impacts!

     It was then that I finally understood that public schools are just vehicles for cronyism. We began homeschooling right after.

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     I earnestly believe that homeschoolers today are carrying the weight of all Western Civilization on their backs. We're like the random monasteries trying to preserve what they could of the Ancient World during the first Dark Ages. Maybe in a few hundred years our efforts will help with the rebuilding of society. Here's hoping.

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     Zonz (zonz@noauthority.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Oct-2024 01:12:43 JST Zonz

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     I hope so! My children are in middle school and read better than 90% of high school seniors. My biggest concern is that their generation will be able to maintain a society with such an illiterate population.

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     Daddy-O of the 7 Wonders (daddyo@noauthority.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Oct-2024 01:12:44 JST Daddy-O of the 7 Wonders

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     This is what happens when the government is allowed to "own" education. Education will always be about imprinting a world view or ideology onto children in addition to knowledge, because in reality humans don't understand or gain knowledge outside of the context of a world view that goes with it. Either it's one of sanity (like the traditional Western/Christian philosophical system) or insanity (modern atheist hedonism/materialism), but it will always be a part of education.

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     Zonz (zonz@noauthority.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Oct-2024 01:12:45 JST Zonz

     Public schools went from a place that teaches the "Three R's" to children to a place for pushing socialization/sexualization/government healthcare/family planning/meals in only a few decades.

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     Yes - while I'm generally against all the refugee resettlement and asylum seekers here in the USA, the one reason I would absolutely grant asylum for is if the family wanted to homeschool their children and needed to escape an oppressive country in which it was outlawed.

     Like so many things today, the NPC crowd has no idea why it's hostile to the "wrong thing" but it will absolutely hate it and those who support it with all its might. Abortion, homeschooling, free speech..etc.

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     Inscius (inscius@noauthority.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Oct-2024 01:22:30 JST Inscius

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     @DaddyO @Zonz Refugee and asylum seeker can mean anything these days.
     I know some Swedish families moved to Swedish speaking areas in Finland, some probably moved to the US:
     You are right about "the wrong thing" - i.e. the unthinkable. And e.g. if people really thought about abortion and checked facts, most would be against it, imho. Avoiding the unthinkable is easier. Avoiding pain.

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     Zonz (zonz@noauthority.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Oct-2024 01:36:19 JST Zonz

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     Homeschool refugees should also take care to move to a part of the US that is not hostile to homeschoolers, such as the west coast states.

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     EvolLove (evollove@noauthority.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Oct-2024 01:40:33 JST EvolLove

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     Anyone deviating from the norm is punished once way or another.

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     @EvolLove @Zonz @DaddyO
     Jante. Or as they say in Japan: the nail that sticks out gets hammered down.

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     @DaddyO 👍 @Killer_Mule @EvolLove @Zonz

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     Inscius (inscius@noauthority.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Oct-2024 02:55:32 JST Inscius

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     @Zonz I rememeber that from my children's schooling. "Studious" was a supoosedly bad thing for boys. @Killer_Mule @DaddyO @EvolLove

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     @DaddyO I'd add, or enter into casual drug use because their friends are doing it...my kids watched friends of theirs start smoking pot, like a lot. Good kids who were going to have to work hard because their families struggled anyways. 8 years later those kids are still friends, but are lost, incarcerated, don't have much drive. They're getting older, just like us, but don't see it. My kids said they would be doing it too if we hadn't moved and were glad we did. @inscius @EvolLove @Zonz

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     Zonz (zonz@noauthority.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Oct-2024 02:55:33 JST Zonz

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     @Killer_Mule @DaddyO @inscius @EvolLove

     Horrible influence of classmates is not limited to destructive behavior like drugs, but also just the way being smart is vilified by most schoolchildren. Being smart is "not cool" so there is no joy/wonder in learning. It's unbelievably damaging to the motivation of a young kid. Public schools are just awful environments for the promotion of learning.