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Anonymous wrote:I have met a handful of moms in Florida who homeschool. I know for a fact they did not attend college. Their grammar is awful. I know I am not perfect myself but that's why I plan on sending my children to public or private school. Why do they homeschool? It seems so backwards. In my home country home schooling is not legal. We would see it as backwards.

Your home country is probably a backwards country and that's why you're here. You may try to learn and adapt in a less judgemental manner.

Signed, fellow immigrant

+1 from another fellow immigrant

Germany, for example, doesn’t allow homeschooling. It’s not a backward country at all. In fact, I remember a case where a German family sought asylum in the US, in order to be able to homeschool their children. They actually got asylum. Hilarious!

Imagine Germans not wanting their government to indoctrinate their children. Crazy talk!

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Anonymous wrote:I have met a handful of moms in Florida who homeschool. I know for a fact they did not attend college. Their grammar is awful. I know I am not perfect myself but that's why I plan on sending my children to public or private school. Why do they homeschool? It seems so backwards. In my home country home schooling is not legal. We would see it as backwards.

Your home country is probably a backwards country and that's why you're here. You may try to learn and adapt in a less judgemental manner.

Signed, fellow immigrant

+1 from another fellow immigrant

Germany, for example, doesn’t allow homeschooling. It’s not a backward country at all. In fact, I remember a case where a German family sought asylum in the US, in order to be able to homeschool their children. They actually got asylum. Hilarious!

Anonymous wrote:All the ones I know fall into either two categories: very religious who want a very strict religious curriculum or are convinced their kid is the next great Olympic athlete and has the kid in 6-8 hours of practice per day.

I know so many in the second category!

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Anonymous wrote:My cousin does this. It’s because they are poor white in an area that’s mostly black. The school is rough, but they do it for segregation.

Her kids would probably get bullied.

The kids absolutely would be bullied.

How can you say that with such confidence? What percentage of poor white people in a majority black school do you know for a fact to have never been bullied? I know of several, it's almost always racially motivated, and pretty much impossible to have anything done due to the optics of the situation.

Anonymous wrote:I have met a handful of moms in Florida who homeschool. I know for a fact they did not attend college. Their grammar is awful. I know I am not perfect myself but that's why I plan on sending my children to public or private school. Why do they homeschool? It seems so backwards. In my home country home schooling is not legal. We would see it as backwards.

Why don’t you just ask them?

Have you met people from anywhere else who homeschool? I might try broadening my reach for a fuller picture of what’s possible.

My 3 nephews were "home schooled" to hide terrible abuse and lived in a 1 bedroom apartment. We tried to get custody of them but lost. My MIL ended up raising them but could only have them if she did not enroll them in public schools. My MIL went broke enrolling them in great enrichment programs, supplemental online schools and curriculums. All 3 will have gone to college once the youngest starts in the fall. They turned out great but what a life.

I think some people do it because the schools near them are terrible. Even if they don't have a high education they feel their kids will be less influenced by kids who do drugs, get into gangs, and that sort of influence. A lot of learning is peer education and if your peers aren't into education then it might be better to wait to enter the public school system when you have a better foundation and can get into honors courses and the like. Also, the mom may not be able to get a high paying job anyway.

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Anonymous wrote:If homeschoolers are so uneducated, they'll fail in life and will pose no threat to you and your school-going kids.

Well, except that they’re allowed to vote…

...as is their right. Perhaps we should revert to having only white, male landowners be allowed to vote. Or some other demographic you find acceptable.

I thought the point of public school education, up to the age you can drop out, is to produce educated voters, thus to support our democracy. We have people too ignorant to vote, democracy is at risk.

Ironically for the anti-homeschoolers, this is true.

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Anonymous wrote:If homeschoolers are so uneducated, they'll fail in life and will pose no threat to you and your school-going kids.

Well, except that they’re allowed to vote…

...as is their right. Perhaps we should revert to having only white, male landowners be allowed to vote. Or some other demographic you find acceptable.

I thought the point of public school education, up to the age you can drop out, is to produce educated voters, thus to support our democracy. We have people too ignorant to vote, democracy is at risk.

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Anonymous wrote:I have met a handful of moms in Florida who homeschool. I know for a fact they did not attend college. Their grammar is awful. I know I am not perfect myself but that's why I plan on sending my children to public or private school. Why do they homeschool? It seems so backwards. In my home country home schooling is not legal. We would see it as backwards.

Your home country is probably a backwards country and that's why you're here. You may try to learn and adapt in a less judgemental manner.

Signed, fellow immigrant

LOL. It sounds like PPs country understands the value of education, and what a disservice it is to society to have a large of contingent of completely uneducated people. Sadly, we are living with the effects of that reality here.

You mean in public school?

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Anonymous wrote:My cousin does this. It’s because they are poor white in an area that’s mostly black. The school is rough, but they do it for segregation.

Her kids would probably get bullied.

They basically dropped out. The girl had a baby at 15.

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Anonymous wrote:I have met a handful of moms in Florida who homeschool. I know for a fact they did not attend college. Their grammar is awful. I know I am not perfect myself but that's why I plan on sending my children to public or private school. Why do they homeschool? It seems so backwards. In my home country home schooling is not legal. We would see it as backwards.

Your home country is probably a backwards country and that's why you're here. You may try to learn and adapt in a less judgemental manner.

Signed, fellow immigrant

LOL. It sounds like PPs country understands the value of education, and what a disservice it is to society to have a large of contingent of completely uneducated people. Sadly, we are living with the effects of that reality here.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have met a handful of moms in Florida who homeschool. I know for a fact they did not attend college. Their grammar is awful. I know I am not perfect myself but that's why I plan on sending my children to public or private school. Why do they homeschool? It seems so backwards. In my home country home schooling is not legal. We would see it as backwards.

Your home country is probably a backwards country and that's why you're here. You may try to learn and adapt in a less judgemental manner.

Signed, fellow immigrant

+1 from another fellow immigrant

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Anonymous wrote:If homeschoolers are so uneducated, they'll fail in life and will pose no threat to you and your school-going kids.

Well, except that they’re allowed to vote…

...as is their right. Perhaps we should revert to having only white, male landowners be allowed to vote. Or some other demographic you find acceptable.

Anonymous wrote:I have met a handful of moms in Florida who homeschool. I know for a fact they did not attend college. Their grammar is awful. I know I am not perfect myself but that's why I plan on sending my children to public or private school. Why do they homeschool? It seems so backwards. In my home country home schooling is not legal. We would see it as backwards.

Your home country is probably a backwards country and that's why you're here. You may try to learn and adapt in a less judgemental manner.

Signed, fellow immigrant