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School as it currently exists is one of the worst things about civilization. If I had to choose between stopping global warming or ending all school (with decent alternatives) I would probably end all school.

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@ltblue12

Aug 9, 2021

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Can you point me to any articles where I can read about this point of view? Or a podcast to listen to? It's pretty alien to me and I want to understand more!

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I should probably write something; but basically, I was homeschooled and find a lot about normal school to be absolutely horrifying and everybody else takes it as normal. no it's not normal to socialize with only pps of your own age and have so little spare time

1:02 AM · Aug 9, 2021

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Honestly, and I'm not trying to be insulting at all but probably 90% of the homeschooled people I've known in my life are very socially awkward

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imo homeschoolers are a different culture; socially awkward cause they don't share the background knowledge with you, but great at socializing with each other

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So you never used the system that you have these opinions about?!?

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As yall probably know, I was homeschooled from birth to the end of 'high school', and cut off from most secular culture - except for 3 months, when I attended public school at the age of 14, and ran into a lot of public school norms that shocked and confused me (cont).

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Ivan Illich has a book about it

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Deschooling Society - Wikipedia

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You seem to have too much spare time.

Naomi

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there are many successful alternative pedagogies that mix people of different ages, for example I went to a Montessori school growing up

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Been a huge amount of home schooling going on over past 16 months. Most parents have found they don't have the skills or patience of teachers, and certainly don't have the time to dedicate to this while doing job(s). Home schooling is a preserve of the affluent/middle classes

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I had way more spare time in school than as an adult with a job tbh. I think the big issue with school is the large amounts of violence and cruelty between the kids. Most people as adults have memoryholed this.

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TBH - my social circle in highschool was mostly not people I went to school with... school work hardly ever took more than a couple of hours a week as well.