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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID 😷)
@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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🦉in the wilderless
@the_wilderless
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
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🦉in the wilderless
@the_wilderless
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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🦉in the wilderless
@the_wilderless
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@QiaochuYuan
V true, but I’d say the chance of it not going far enough is greater than it going too far. I grew up w v v sheltered schooling & a lot of old classmates are very “fuck the poor, fuck the uneducated, they should have worked harder.” V little awareness of their advantages
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Rustam
@rusant10
Think that's partly where a lot of the discomfort with the idea of taking kids out of the public school comes from here in Germany that's shared pretty widely across the mainstream political spectrum. It's a fear of allowing the elite to disengage from wider society.
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