[eqvinox]

For the sake of perspective/completeness: No — homeschooling is illegal in my country. (Though I wouldn't do it even if it was legal.)

(The thread title is "Do You Homeschool?", as opposed to "How Do You Homeschool?" or "What are your experiences homeschooling?")

[cvccvroomvroom]

Where is that?

[eqvinox]

Somewhat redundant with the map in the sibling post, but it's Germany.

This is obviously colored by my own cultural perspective, but homeschooling is seen like hereditary debt. Children have a right to build a life free from "faults" of their parents. Allowing children to be removed from the public school system is very broadly viewed as leaving them much worse equipped for their later life, not unlike had they inherited crippling debt.

(And from having attended school in Germany — I don't see how any parent [or even group of parents] can teach a curriculum even remotely similar to a German high school. You'd need more than one person's worth of full time occupation just to prepare across history, math, geography, literature, chemistry, biology, foreign languages… a pupil can pick up 3 foreign languages in a German Gymnasium ffs! Are you going to put them back into public school if your child turns out to have a talent/interest for languages? Or math? We did basic integral calculus. Can you teach that?)

[mharig]

Although I agree with your arguments, you forgot one or two things:

Public schooling in Germany is near pure chalk and talk. This kills the natural motivational learning-by- playing habit in most of the children very effectively. The approaches of Waldorf, Montessori, etc are far better. Although not perfect.

Public schooling transports the state propaganda. Although in nowadays Germany, it is more propaganda by ignorance than by direct indoctrination. Or did you learn about direct democracy, non-fiat money, self-administration in school?

[eqvinox]

> direct democracy

Yes, by looking at the Swiss system

> non-fiat money

Yes, we learned about ancient age bartering as well as inherent-value currency (i.e. gold coins)

> self-administration

Not sure what you're referring to here…

[mharig]

Swiss' have not a real direct democracy. They, too, feed fuckin' politicians and their political idiocy. And the swiss bureaucracy is as bloated as in Germany, too.

And of course as a german Untertan you do not know what self-administration is.

[eulgro]

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