So I literally had this thought this morning: why is anyone on here still enrolling their children in school? I thought better of making a post because people with children usually get prickly if asked to explain a parenting choice to someone without children. I spent the last decade determined I wouldn’t have kids because it meant enrolling them in school and extra curriculars while I would bust my ass at a job to pay for someone else to raise them. Now, with schools being outed for what they really are, I could get behind having kids, homeschooling and homesteading with them. That kind of parenting appeals to me. Not daycare parenting.
Despite everything I hate about public schools, I know that a kid that goes to public schools can turn into a person like me (moral, successful, etc.), because I went to public schools and now, here I am.
What is an uncertainty is if myself and my wife can, without public schools, turn a kid into a person like me.
A lot of it has to do with shared experiences. I know what I got out of public schools, and I don't know if I can recreate that for my kids. Could I create better experiences? Sure, but, again, that's an uncertainty and hugely subjective.
Public schools today aren't the same as the ones you went to.
Perhaps, but I was in schools within the last 20 years and I know that my local school district is still staffed by largely the same people, and many of the newcomers are people I know.
So I literally had this thought this morning: why is anyone on here still enrolling their children in school? I thought better of making a post because people with children usually get prickly if asked to explain a parenting choice to someone without children. I spent the last decade determined I wouldn’t have kids because it meant enrolling them in school and extra curriculars while I would bust my ass at a job to pay for someone else to raise them. Now, with schools being outed for what they really are, I could get behind having kids, homeschooling and homesteading with them. That kind of parenting appeals to me. Not daycare parenting.
Despite everything I hate about public schools, I know that a kid that goes to public schools can turn into a person like me (moral, successful, etc.), because I went to public schools and now, here I am.
What is an uncertainty is if myself and my wife can, without public schools, turn a kid into a person like me.
A lot of it has to do with shared experiences. I know what I got out of public schools, and I don't know if I can recreate that for my kids. Could I create better experiences? Sure, but, again, that's an uncertainty and hugely subjective.
“I know that a kid that goes to public schools can turn into a person like me… because I went to public schools and now, here I am.”
Public schools today aren’t the same as the ones you went to.
Perhaps, but I was in schools within the last 20 years and I know that my local school district is still staffed by largely the same people, and many of the newcomers are people I know.
Same people, sure.
Completely different curriculum, massive forces imposing said curriculum, regardless of those peoples beliefs or preferences.