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by actfrench 1654 days ago
What's stopping you from pulling your kids out of school if you hate it so much? Genuinely curious..

is it childcare, a fear that you don't know how to teach, how to get started, worries about social learning? A lot of families are doing homeschooling, modular learning, microschooling...

Also as someone who has taught in public and private schools, I will tell you that even the most elite private schools are not that much better. It's still a group of kids in one class doing way too much homework and very little freedom to pursue their own interests.

Just as public school students are being indoctrinated, so are private school students. Indoctrinated, perhaps into different systems. The elite want to keep their kids elite, so maybe they are being indoctrinated into becoming the future leaders of wall Street and tech companies - and the government wants to control its citizens (there are some good reasons of course, for that, but a lot of bad reasons). Oddly, a lot of public school systems like bells and desks are designed to prepare kids to work for jobs in factories, so I'm not even sure this indoctrination is successful because it's a bit antiquated. Just hard to change.

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It’s a matter of time, for me. I would also be worried about socializing from homeschool.

I work full time and my wife uses the time the kids are at school to manage activities, the home, etc.

Home school would be explored if we had a live in nanny and perhaps someone to help design a curriculum.