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Alternative/Homeschooling: Thoughts? (lemmy.ml)

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So at least my perspective in the UK is rough: endless burnt-out teachers resorting to escalating punitive measures to control kids being raised on landlordism, misogyny, etc. that makes me fear the kind of environment id be exposing a future kid to.

Of course, homeschooling and alternative education is stigmatised across the political sphere, whether it's for legitimate reasons or otherwise. As socialists you also get exposed to a lot of critiques of so-called traditional school systems.

Do any parents here (or otherwise) have experience with homeschooling, or stuff like montessori, democratic schools, etc?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Thats a pretty big and relevant fear.

In this day and age it probably isn't a bad thing to prepare for the worst case scenario. Figure out what it would take to fully/partially homeschool your kid and do your best to let the kid know that they actually can tell you what is going on at school (if not homeschooled) so everybody can be on the same page about whether to stay in school, look into switching schools, or go the homeschool route.