Thread by @ChloePees

Parents homeschooling will make parents smarter. I saw a news segment where a mom said “I have to teach it to myself then teach them, it’s too much!”. Parents are brainwashed to think this is bad, but this constant state of learning is what keeps our minds from aging!

https://twitter.com/chloepees/status/1363845256698028036

There’s this misconception that teachers have to be these geniuses that have all the info at the ready in their heads at all times. This is not true usually. They go off materials and they teach the same specific stuff over and over. A parent only has to learn and teach it once.

Imagine your child is learning science. Not only do you get to brush up on the science you were hazy on in school, with your now more able adult mind, you get to explain it to your child in a way that will actually interest THEM because you know them better than anyone. Win, win.

You come out of it with a better understanding and so does your child. You grow together. And the beauty of it is you don’t have to use a classroom or textbook, you can use the real world and more interesting and relatable contexts.

So often in school kids find info irrelevant because the way it is taught is so divorced from any relatable reality that it seems like it’s being taught arbitrarily so they just do the bare minimum and ignore it. At home you have so many more ways to apply it.

And you can add so many subjects at home that you were never even truly taught in school and had to teach yourself later on. Like the nuances of nutrition, exercise, and finances. Those things are half-assed in school when they should be the main subjects!

And when you teach a child yourself, you don’t have to treat it like school. The beauty of imparting knowledge to your own child in your home and the real world is that it can be structured as activities and conversations you should already be having, rather than assignments.

It’s a much more natural and wholesome interaction. Instead of doing a worksheet in a hard chair about groceries and agriculture, you go to the farmer’s market weekly, you plant a garden, etc. It’s an ongoing part of real life being explained as it happens.

There needs to be a way where after parents have a child, one of them stays home permanently and devotes themselves to raising the child until they are 18. We can give money to public schools but not this?

The problem with giving money to it though is that where the money goes the power goes. Those in power will use the money to create arbitrary restrictions on the parents and monitor how they raise the children. It becomes house arrest, which is what we’re creeping towards now.

Remote learning is just as shit as public school if not worse. We need complete parental freedom. And we need it to be more socially acceptable for one parent to stay home, and to exclusively breastfeed. Mother until at least 2 for breastfeeding, whichever parent prefers after.

Most parents have been brainwashed that staying home with children equals oppression, so that will never fully happen across the board, and that’s ok. Choice is part of freedom. But I think soon you’re going to see more people choosing it naturally, and that’s how change happens.

Much like how many are choosing be be plant based and raise plant based kids when we so recently had been brainwashed to think it’s unhealthy, you are also going to see more homeschoolers and exclusive breastfeeders until 2.

If this were mandated by government it would only be another form of oppression. The ends never justify the means no matter how wholesome the intention. But when it’s really a choice, like people voting with their dollar for vegan products in stores, you’ll see positive change.