What are your opinions on homeschooling?
My opinion: Both have pros and cons.
I have heard that homeschooled kids are often better academically and more intelligent compared to average students. But they have bad social skills and have a lot of anxiety.
In normal school, you might have better social skills for sure. And you might grow up good if you don’t get influenced by the rotten people at school and if you don’t get into drugs or stuff due to peer pressure. But that’s IF YOU DON’T GET INTO THESE. If you get into these, good luck getting outta these. And there’s the concern of getting bullied too…
So I personally think homeschooling might be a better choice.
Generally, I think it’s hubris for someone to think they can educate their kids better than a professional that’s trained for half-a-decade or more. And the most-common fear, that schools are “indoctrinating” kids, is easily countered: just be fucking involved in their lives.
That being said, the real world is always more compicated than theory. Parents should have a right to choose this path, coupled with a responsibility to adhere to the same educational standards as professionals.
Considering your first paragraph, do you think parents’ “rights” should override those of their children?
No, that’s the “responsibility” part.
Responsibility should bear consequences as well, no one should be having the “freedom” to choose to ruin their child’s life by turning it into an uneducated detached from society adult. It’s not very much unlike a cult deciding that they have the right to keep a child away from society and raise it however they see fit, and I imagine that’s illegal in most places if not everywhere.
I think that besides the academic aspect, there’s the far more important aspect that school is the place where kids interact with their peers and learn to grow up and be people. I honestly don’t think any level of academic education can compensate for the loss that individual kid will experience if they end up missing out on growing up with their peers.
Out of all my teachers, I’d call maybe 5 of them professionals. The rest are all power tripping bastards that want to put kids in line instead of teach them.
Were the system better, I would say public school is the obvious option. But one of my public school teachers told my friend he’d be pumping gas for the rest of his life in the middle of Algebra class lmao. Some of these people are petty as fuck and childish, and they’re punished the same way bad cops are punished.