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0 pointsblaser-waffle5y ago0 comments

I grew up in Virginia, and any of the home schooled kids were hyper religious and profoundly ignorant.

I bumped into a few of them at a community college after I got out of the military. The USMC indoc'd me hard with the groupthink, and that took a while to get past, but I could at least do high school Trig and had basic history. I remember one girl who didn't believe the Holy Roman Empire existed and despite her extensively Christian background, didn't know a damn thing about the Crusades.

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Broken_Hippo5y ago

I knew one family that homeschooled to different degrees: The oldest was until 8/9th grade, though the younger ones went to public school sooner. They weren't bad off, though obviously conservative and pretty much any friends were also homeschooled or were through church or boy scouts. The oldest really had issues adjusting to the other students.

But I know folks like the ones you met exist as well, and it irritates me to no end that we, as a society, allow this to happen. It is easy to see that such a thing might have lifelong consequences.

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0 pointsblaser-waffle5y ago0 comments

I grew up in Virginia, and any of the home schooled kids were hyper religious and profoundly ignorant.

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Broken_Hippo5y ago

But I know folks like the ones you met exist as well, and it irritates me to no end that we, as a society, allow this to happen. It is easy to see that such a thing might have lifelong consequences.

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