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0 pointspixl973mo ago0 comments

>increasingly hostile to ordinary people educating their kids outside school

There is a whole lot more nuance here than you're giving the topic.

There is one side that wants to give their kids a good education, they have the resources and the motivation to ensure they come out ahead.

They are not the problem, the problem is the other side of this coin.

Where I grew up there were a lot of homeschooled kids that belonged to religious organizations. These groups had very little motivation to ensure they were intelligent, but instead nice dumb little worker bees that would stay with said organization and have little ability to work with the outside world at large. They were also at a much higher risk of being sexually abused/sexually trafficked as they were given little to no education about sex or risky adults.

I still remember being a kid myself and having to educate these other kids my age because they were missing large chunks of important information about the world.

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graemep3mo ago

> Where I grew up there were a lot of homeschooled kids that belonged to religious organization. These groups had very little motivation to ensure they were intelligent, but instead nice dumb little worker bees that would stay with said organization

Not true in the UK. Studies in many countries (the UK, US, Australia) and others have shown that home educated kids have better outcomes than school going kids after correcting for parental education, wealth etc.

Yes, there are exceptions, but there are also bad schools and some terrible schools.

UK law also requires children to receive a "suitable and efficient" full time education and there are legal mechanisms for sending children to school if they do not.

> They were also at a much higher risk of being sexually abused/sexually trafficked as they were given little to no education about sex or risky adults.

Stats in the UK show home ed kids are MUCH less likely to be abused, to self harm, or commit suicide.

Of course there are bad home educating communities, but there are also some horrific schools and the latter are a lot more common. Does that mean we should shut down schools?

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