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Aug 11, 2020

confronting the possibility that your own children could be free of child prison would hurt too much. easier to insist that reality continue to let you pretend it’s impossible to escape in other words, it’s crab bucketing t.co/VX6XlPoYIK

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID

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@QiaochuYuan

Aug 11, 2020

broke: what legible economic incentives are operating in this situation woke (at least for understanding americans): what aspects of reality is it psychologically necessary for the people in this situation to deny

QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID

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@QiaochuYuan

to be clear i have nothing but sympathy for parents who can’t afford homeschooling etc. but the deal is i also have nothing but sympathy for parents who can and want to and do. good on you. hopefully we’ll come back for the rest of the kids later

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@utotranslucence

Aug 11, 2020

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Do we have a list of active, current alternatives to school that are already implemented somewhere in the world and that are Probably Not Traumatic? Seems like directing people interested in not traumatising their kids to these gets them more resources, plus they already exist.

QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID

linked to this one of the last times this came up:

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Richard D. Bartlett (Berlin Aug 2-10)

@RichDecibels

· Jul 1, 2020

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Schoolishness is a term of art within the deschooling community. Eg they use it a lot on raisingfreepeople.com It's like, reduced agency, indoctrinated, waiting for permission, etc

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I’m in favor of this while also recognizing that it can’t NOT contribute to even more cultural oligarchy. The homeschools would have to include an awareness for the kids that other kids their age are trapped in prisons, and it’s their job to help them when they grow up, not to

in the wilderless

@the_wilderless

Aug 11, 2020

look down on them or exploit them. —I think it would be a great idea to have those kids attend normal public schools for a couple months every few years, so they can really feel what the less fortunate of their generation are going through, and keep mindful of it.

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