They mostly learn from each other, adapt, immunize themselves against the worst excesses of adult bullshit, and follow good instincts about what it takes to survive as a human being while satisfying adult delusions of pedagogical agency.
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If you measured home schooling and unschooling not in terms of formal status but how checked-out/self-directed kids are in even the most controlled school, there’s a lot less actual schooling going on than there appears to be.
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South Park, Simpsons get the view right. It’s 10% Lisas, 10% Ralph Wiggums, 80% Barts, Stans, Kyles, Cartmans. Living in their own world (World B) crafted in the interstices of the one adults think they’ve crafted for them (World A). They just pretend to live in World A.
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Actually the Butters archetype is more messed up than Ralph Wiggum. Ralph is in his own world at least. Butters takes the Workd A crafted by adults seriously.
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I remember this piece but note that 90% of what the article talks about is the peer environment effects, not the effects of teaching.
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The biggest environment effect is just age-separated cohorts. Things like wokeleban doctrine are almost a rounding error on that basic effect for kids with access to the internet. The taleban indoctrines by cutting off access to sources *other* than the Koran.
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In Asia kids take college prep way more seriously because it really does make a much bigger difference between worst and best case life outcomes. So the mental health trauma is, in some sense, justified by the stakes. Its a battle for actual survival. Here it’s gotten irrational.
I think it's impossible to look at how things are in the US and think the stakes aren't ridiculously high

