oh just wait until you have your kid and your kid starts to go to school, if you stay in a blue part of the US you will be more than aware of the existence of such discourse
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Replying to @eigenrobot @babarganesh
curious why? book learning can be replicated, but social skills seem to be better learned by having them socialize
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Replying to @pw_is_taco1 @babarganesh
Society exists outside of schools!
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Replying to @eigenrobot @babarganesh
unless you're having your kid homeschool 30 hours a week with a pod of 15-30 other homeschoolers, I'm not sure it reaches a critical mass Idk, obv there are many paths to enlightenment, but learning with a cohort generally seems to work if the school is good
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I hope you talk about them My wife and I are expecting first kidlet shortly She had a negative experience of public school, I had a negative experience being homeschooled in isolation. Curious to see Alternatives
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sliding scale of options can easily do a homeschooling coop with the number of expected kids on the way out here and optionality for one of us to stay at home also some very good Montessori style options in Seattle depends on a lot, including state or the world in 6-20 years
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Replying to @eigenrobot @pw_is_taco1
montessori sucks quite badly for many kids - talk about being arbitrary and dogmatic about learning and behavior, it's a serious problem
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and homeschooling co-ops are great until they aren't. you need to have a strong shared sense of values with the people you are going in with and they need to not be cray. in my experience that is a pretty small venn diagram.
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we know the people in question personally and have strong value and temperamental alignment as well as knowing the school board president of the other school im sorry your experience in these matters was not great
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Replying to @eigenrobot @pw_is_taco1
(our experience was too brief to be much of a bummer)
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