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connieaaa · 2 years

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I was homeschooled from pre-K through 12th grade.

I loved being homeschooled, and having control over my education.

But, I didn't have a single educational experience outside of Church. My parents refused to provide math tutoring, music classes, and free college.

I asked to learn algebra when I was 9, and was asked about the shortest distance across a mailbox. I said diagonally, and I was told that was algebra.

I did temporarily take a Spanish class at a homeschool group for Christian Nationalists; it was taught by my Aunt. It was horrible- the kids, the curriculum, the teacher, the people who ran the co-op.

My dad taught me a lot about young earth creationism.

My mom taught me about homeopathy.

That's it.

I either taught myself, or someone outside the family took the time to teach me.

I have imposter syndrome, and people constantly tell me I know too much for not attending college. I am finally going to start college.

Help your kids when they ask for help. I worked so hard on math I'd give myself migraines.

#cptsdsurvivor #ex christian #narcissist parents #religious trauma #ex fundamentalist #bad parenting #homeschool #unschooling #Unschoolers #religious homeschooling #growing up religious #apostate #neglect #education #educational neglect

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sleepsucks · 8 months

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#07.10.22 #3134 #not really but i remain selfconscious #the show was Unschooling + we hate you please die + Johnny Mafia #fun one

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darlingbundoodles · 8 months

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Mavris just has bad luck with Kindleafs

#art #illustration #my art #artist #drawing #digital art #digital #fanart #Naddpod #naddpod bahumia #naddpod spoilers #not another dnd podcast fanart #erlin kindleaf #erlin kindleaf fanart #egwene kindleaf #mavris the unschooled

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imnalien · 7 months

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EDIT: Corrected for ableist language. NPD hate isn't cool!

When reactionaries talk about "parental rights" what they really mean is their perceived "right" to own and control an entire person for at least 18 years while the state does the bare minimum to protect the aforementioned child/children.

But it goes deeper than that. Even well meaning liberals and progressives will treat their children as their inherent property.

"No one gets to tell me how to raise MY child!", "kids have it SO easy", "My kids will understand why I'm punishing them when they're older." All of it is condescending and crummy.

I'm so so sick of it. Me and so many others (especially those who don't fit the NT cishet norm) were so totally failed by their well-meaning parents who had no qualm about utilizing verbal, psychological, and even physical abuse in a vain effort to make their children conform to a world that fundamentally isn't made for them.

My status as a poor queer person will most likely preclude me from ever having children of my own, be they biological/fostered/or adopted (this is by design, btw. Don't want the disease spreading through the populace). But I'm rapidly approaching the point where I see all willing parents as suspect. Why do you want to have kids? What makes you equipped to do so? Do you agree that children are an oppressed people group? How are you planning on mitigating this? How are you planning on fostering a diverse community for your child to inhabit? How do you plan on going about unschooling your children?

I see no one except for the most radical/punk parents asking half of these questions. Gee, it's almost as if parenthood attracts abusers who want an excuse to live out their pent-up power fantasies and repeat the cycle of abuse and trauma for one more generation.

#childism #youth liberation #unschooling #community #anti natalism #child liberation #epitome of queer rage #child emancipation #i just hate parents lol

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isa-grapes · 1 month

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mavrus the unschooled was right, love is love

#relistening to old naddpod eps #mavrus the unschooled #naddpod #not another dnd podcast #zac oyama

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dyspunktional-revan · 1 year

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Youth Liberation Theory Starter List

Repost, not gathered by me.

What I’d also add:

Original starter list link: https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/view/besAg6ftZLb59VyzAARKYPyFLdweM7aU1QSAREwHSBs/

The link’s content copied below the cut:

[This list is motivated to point towards introductory and in-depth texts concerning most topics revolving youth liberation.]

-------------------------------------------------------- What are youth rights?

-------------------------------------------------------- Why *all* brain development arguments used against youth autonomy are ageist (and also objectively incorrect):

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-myth-of-the-teen-brain-2007-06/

-------------------------------------------------------- Why youth rights are necessary:

-------------------------------------------------------- What is unschooling?

-------------------------------------------------------- What is the Troubled Teens Industry (TTI)?

-------------------------------------------------------- Interview with John Holt and Richard Farson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i64OJ7w8B2c

-------------------------------------------------------- Books:

Escape From Childhood, by John Holt

(https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=4DA27D84D32295C54B7206C0F5052A1B)

Teen 2.0, by Robert Epstein

(https://www.amazon.com/Teen-2-0-Children-Families-Adolescence-ebook/dp/B0079M8OX2/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=teen+2.0&qid=1629080521&s=books&sr=1-2)

The Rights of Children, edited by Bob Franklin 1986

(https://www.amazon.com/Rights-Children-Bob-Franklin/dp/063114711X/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=the+rights+of+children+bob+franklin&qid=1629080585&s=books&sr=1-4)

Free To Learn, by Peter Gray

(https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=3E3D775243999FF740E62EBBFDA6511C)

An Empirical Introduction to Youth, by Joseph Bronski

(https://1lib.us/book/15486529/5a4474)

* This list is subjected to changes which would result in me deleting and re-uploading the entire post as newer data comes my way.*

I apologise in advance that a lot of the books I passed are not exactly available digitally at the moment, and some of the books for sale are also quite pricey at this time.

That said, I hope this serves well to everyone looking to get involved seriously in youth liberation as the very important cause that it is!

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lifeinpoetry · 1 year

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Never stop babbling to old friends or fields about your earliest

whiff of banana bread.

Lick the sad from the sea & on a Tuesday.

Flabbergast in some earthly

mouthful of a way & tonight.

— Chen Chen, from "The School of the Unschoolable," Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

#quote #chen chen #poetry #your emergency contact has experienced an emergency #out of my collection #The School of the Unschoolable

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gender-trash · 9 months

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see the thing is that a lot of my opinions on The Education System are founded on the basis of my having had generally something close to the best version of the thing it was possible for me to have received, and done Very Well at it by all objective measures*, and simultaneously spending a lot of time as a child and, later, a teenager desperately projecting onto fictional child soldiers and half-wishing that i was one of them because maybe it would be objectively worse but at least other people would understand that it was bad

this remains an incredibly difficult topic for me to talk about directly, for multiple reasons, so instead i'm going to write a bunch of fanfiction about itachi from naruto and hope you get it

*one of the reasons this is a difficult subject for me to talk about is i always feel i have to quantify precisely what i mean by "having done well academically", but simultaneously, i have a rock-hard gut-level conviction that talking about my academic achievements with any specificity will result in everyone dismissing anything negative i have to say about school, and most likely also Thinking Worse Of Me For Bragging. so you will just have to imagine my maxed-out standardized test scores!! sorry!!

#you know the thing abt how emotionally abused kids often kind of wish they were physically abused because it's more legible. that #the trashcan speaks #every year i become more of a radical unschooler #all parents are bastards #(is my youthrights tag)#wow. i feel a lot weirder about spilling my entire guts and Deep Inner Traumas on this blog now that there are so many of you #nice 2 me pls ;-;

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canyourlawnmowerdothis · 3 months

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kindergarten pisses me off. that baby should be failing at climbing trees and going to storytime

#i was unschooled until 1st grade and my little sister wemt to kindergarten #it was a horrible thing to witness. i didn't really know what happened in kindergarten until she went #and it was awful. why this bitch bringing home worksheets. WHY ARE THEY GRADING 5 YR OLDS #pussygator proclamations

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deeclareitpub · 2 years

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mrsmarssmith · 2 months

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i homeschool my kids and sometimes i think "oh it might be fun to connect with other groups that homeschool" so i will make the mistake of looking up groups on fb or reddit and it's always the worst mistake. it's just either full of influencer tradwives who micromanage their kids' education for content, manic dumpster fires who are having to wrestle their turdy kids who hate homeschooling to get them to do anything, or negligent unschooling hippies who think it's totally fine that mackkenzeigh is 9 and can't read. there's no in-between.

#im not even hating on unschooling #that's close to what i do technically #but we still do 3 days a week of sit-down work to make sure they're hitting targets #homeschool #unschooling

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etirabys · 8 months

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there's basically no good schooling solution in the US for gifted and somewhat neurodivergent kids

a lot of the parents I talked to this weekend were those kids who had grown up and married each other – they reasonably expect their kids to be similarly underserved (or actively traumatized) by public school, and are trying really hard to give the kids something better

everyone's crazy about the topic of Sending Your Child To The Torture Cabinet That Keeps Society Running

#i liked korean public school but only because they were so apathetic it was kind of like being unschooled #rambl

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dizzybevvie · 1 year

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Bev being like "my friends taught me that a little chaos is ok" is so funny bc it took five (5) minutes of being around them for him to be chaotic with no moral debate and also he mostly lead it.

#like maybe they enabled him sure but thwy did not teach him that 😭#beverly toegold #beverly toegold v #naddpod #moonshine cybin #mavrus the unschooled #hardwon surefoot #brian murphy #emily axford #caldwell tanner #jake hurwitz #zac oyama #Im on Mage Madness if you couldnt tell #apollo says stuff

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cupidsintern · 2 months

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I've noticed in discussions of the alt-right and child rearing there's a sort of implied assumption that only the alt-right homeschool their kids and that homeschooling is always bad.

I just wanted to come out of the woodwork to remind people that i am a leftist who was homeschooled by leftists explicitly because my mom, who is a person of color, did not want me exposed to the extreme racism present in the US school system, especially in how history is taught. I went to public high school and am now in college, and while i certainly have issues with certain aspects of homeschooling, and recognize that it is only an option available to the middle and upper classes, its not Always Bad or Always Worse than public or private institutionalized schooling. And it's certainly not just done by the alt-right.

#homeschooling #unschooling #cw alt-right mention #also my mother is an extremely well educated woman who CHOSE homemaking #which is a really important aspect of gender equality

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hobohobgoblim · 2 years

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"As a parent you have a responsibility to cooperate with the school system in making your child into an obedient worker, to be sold on the auction block and purchased by capital. For the child's own good, any intrinsic desire for freedom must be removed by the helpful, loving parent. Using a carefully calculated combination of cunning deception and blatant terror, the free and questioning mind is turned into a docile worker.

Like all industrial processes, the process of transforming a free child into a compliant, unquestioning, mindlessly obedient working class adult is now scientifically refined, optimized and standardized. Deception techniques are so effective, the hapless victims really believe their capacity for critical thought was a hindrance.

"Why?" is a senseless, immature question. The idea that my mind should be persuaded by moral reasoning, rather than subdued by deception, neutralized by superficial unquestioning rationalization and awed by horrific fear, this is an immature and impractical mindset, which every adult should be proud to leave behind. Unquestioning obedience to the system is celebrated by the sophisticated (i.e. duped and deceived) mind as a mark of urbanity and maturity rather than being seen for what it really is, a tragic abandonment of the mind's noble capacity for questioning and autonomous growth.

The parent chooses to reproduce an enslaved, sycophantic, servile existence. Instead of seeking freedom, flourishing and growth, the parent is content to try to justify their own failure to free themselves by imposing tyranny on another generation. I know there are exceptions. But the rarity of exceptions only shows how common the rule is.

I know this is an unpopular opinion, but I believe bringing a child into the world when the mind of the child is destined to be deceived into subjection, beaten into servility, and effectively obliterated as an autonomous self-ruling entity, I think this decision is profoundly immoral. In this I include my own birth." MercyInDefense

Truer words.

#free the kids #abolish schools #play is the work of a child #free play #unschooling #fuck industrialism #fuck capitalism #child liberation

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