- Yulia ( @ShaggyDemiurge@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 61•1 year ago
I don’t think that’s it. School sucks, and my school was 11 years of pure hell, I don’t argue that, but locking a child with a parent and giving parents even more control over their life is not a solution
- Totendax ( @Totendax@feddit.de ) 26•1 year ago
Are American schools really that horrible?
Not just American ones.
- gk99 ( @gk99@beehaw.org ) 8•1 year ago
Mine definitely weren’t when I graduated in 2016. Towards the end there, I legit spent most of the day just sitting in the band hall with a handful of 360 controllers playing games (mostly Duck Game) on my laptop with friends and passersby. Virtual classes, concurrent college classes, and a travel hour pretty much gave me free reign to fuck around most of the week because I wasn’t required to be in class except on specific days for those classes. Never got physically bullied, even had a middle-school verbal bully apologize to me. I saw plenty of people come out as LGBT comfortably, I saw football players compliment the marching band, it really wasn’t that bad unless you were one of those people who got into fights, stole shit, and tried to sell drugs.
I have no doubt that schools can be hellholes, but I wouldn’t say it’s a given.
- Franzia ( @Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 8•1 year ago
Fuck yes. At the time, I was glad my school didn’t have much violence. When my trans egg started to crack, and I was a male shaving his legs and painting his toenails… Well, no one accepted me, nor hated me either. I dropped out and took a year of homeschooling, and studying alone and cycling everyday was a wonderfup break. But that backing off into more dependence on my parents fucked up my life for a while anyways.
- meyotch ( @meyotch@slrpnk.net ) 4•1 year ago
Yes. In my experience it was frequently a Lord of the Flies situation. I had hour long bus rides in my rural district where the only adult was busy driving. Knowing teenagers you can probably imagine how the freaks and geeks got treated.
- LoamImprovement ( @LoamImprovement@beehaw.org ) 3•1 year ago
Kids in America are so fucking cruel. We’re taught pretty much from the get-go that it’s everyone for themselves, and the only thing that keeps it from turning into Lord of the Flies is the school’s culpability if one kid kills another.
- moonsnotreal ( @moonsnotreal@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 2•1 year ago
Yeah. I was relentlessly bullied throughout school, and it only ended when I went to a different school district. The teachers did absolutely nothing and whenever they did notice something they ruled it a “double fault”.
- rumschlumpel ( @ichmagrum@feddit.de ) Deutsch17•1 year ago
Doesn’t really answer the question, though …
It is a stupid question. School is not the only place where you can socialize.
- Umbrias ( @Umbrias@beehaw.org ) 7•1 year ago
It’s a blatantly reasonable question about fundamental logistics of homeschooling. Equally valid are “how did you set up the lesson plans” or “how are you supplementing teaching in areas you are weak in”
- rumschlumpel ( @ichmagrum@feddit.de ) Deutsch3•1 year ago
Where do homeschooled kids socialize, though?
- violetraven ( @violetraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 1•1 year ago
Conferences, Discord, camps, extracurricular activities they find interesting and sign up for, etc.
- KyuubiNoKitsune ( @KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 15•1 year ago
Was home schooled because my mom couldn’t afford to send me to a decent school. I really don’t recommend it. When I did it, I also believed in that whole “why would I want to go to school where kids are mean and bully each other” shit. And while I think kids are cruel and school is shit, I do not recommend doing home schooling at all. It just fucked me up.
- ninpnin ( @ninpnin@sopuli.xyz ) 15•1 year ago
I got bullied pretty bad as a kid but homeschooling seems way worse