Have to wonder how many children share this view.
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This appears to be a blind spot in the literature. Anecdotally, ESPECIALLY for queer/trans/nonbinary children of conservative homeschooling parents, not a positive experience at all.
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Agree, need more studies on this. A much smaller % of homeschoolers today are driven by ideological reasons than in the past. The only one I've found is this one, and it's not particularly objective:
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Yeah looking at the sponsor, "survivorship bias" probably has a horrifically literal meaning here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Scho
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"HSLDA has been criticized, from both inside and outside the larger homeschooling movement, for its ties to the Christian Right and its advocacy for various conservative political and religious causes, some of which are unrelated to homeschooling." See eg
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Not super familiar with them, will have to read more. AFAIK Ray isn't affiliated w/ them. He manages his biases decently well & is somewhat objective about the current downsides of homeschooling. Wish there were more truly objective research on the topic.
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Well one well-known objectivist certainly has a position:
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(as you know) I was raised in a borderline cult environment with professionally evangelist parents, homeschooled, limited access to media, taught 6k y/o earth, explicitly expected to be a housewife who homeschooled her own children in the ways of the Lord. 1/
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Actually on my list of folks to talk to — would love to hear ’s more detailed thoughts on homeschooling, ton of respect for her.
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