Quote of the Day
I feel like an alien, having traveled down to planet earth and found that society just does this and thinks it’s normal, and I am personally horrified but gently going ‘are you sure this is ok’ to people who insist that no, this was necessary and they will happily do it to their own children. On a planet made out of Aellas, any one of you who attended public school could go on the talk shows and discuss your traumatic upbringing where your entire childhood was wasted away into systematic damage to your curiosity. You’d get massive sympathy from the audience and you could go on a book tour and they’d make a dramatic tragic biopic about your life. On a planet made out of Aellas, you’d need therapy.
Aella
May 28, 2025
Chattel Childhood – by Aella – Knowingless
The quote above is noteworthy. Reading the entire post is reality warping.
Even loons can have blogs…
Kurt
Really interesting piece with lots of good points. What it unfortunately doesn’t confront is that many folks who are homeschooling are specifically doing so in order to indoctrinate their kids in religion, leveraging the fact that if you start telling a child stories early enough and often enough, by the time they’re an adult they’ll have no reason (or in many cases ability) to question them.
The same is true of almost any set of social structures. And many people see that as a feature rather than a bug. My preference is probably more aligned with you on this specific topic, but I prefer liberty for parents to choose for their children and let social Darwinism sort things out rather than force one size fits all on everyone.
Proverbs 22.
As one who had also been homeschooled up to 10th grade, her descriptions of public school forcing an hour’s worth of learning into a seven-hour day is spot-on. College was also makework tasks “learning” skills mastered before I could drive. Every day was an exercise in patience waiting until the one or two class periods of psychology, philosophy, or other subject that administrators decided I needed to know.
Haven’t seen much of religious isolationism in the homeschooling communities I’ve observed… Sure that’s likely an inherent selection bias, and/or a distortion spread by grifters in the current literally strict definition of fascist education cartel.