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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The collective trance that America endured across the covid debacle taught me a lot about our society and all our magical thinking.

This much pearl-clutching over homeschooling tells me that homeschooling must have enormous merit.

Sounds like it is perceived as a threat to a dearly loved set of conventional practices  that reside on shaky ground.  Practices that perhaps used to make sense, but maybe were optimized for a world that has receded.

This much flak usually means one thing:  homeschooling is a disruptive approach that is flying directly over the target.
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I'm not sure what you mean by this. But coming back the OP's original question, covid provides a new reason why homeschoolers are perceived as weird. Once schools reopened, the parents that chose to keep their kids home due to covid tended to have rather unusual beliefs regarding the risks of covid. Others may have pointed to things like bullying or peer pressure as reasons for homeschooling, which is also unorthodox.

But more broadly, a lot of these perceptions start when you're a child yourself. If you went to school, and you interacted with homeschoolers at the time, didn't they seem a little weird? Weird isn't necessarily bad. It basically means different. But homeschooled kids tend to be both a little weird and a little shy/quiet around other kids, which is a tough combination for others.[/quote]

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