Thread by @insomnochick

We don't "school" at home, we RAISE OUR OWN CHILDREN, and we do it because we love them, and believe we know what's best for them well enough to do our own research, and find our own "experts" to help us, when WE decide they need them. 1/

When we see to the education and daily lives of our own children, we aren't "escaping," nor are we "refugees," unless you're willing to concede that "school" is a totalitarian political prison. I mean, I'll go there with you if you like, but I doubt you want to...2/

We need to stop accepting the premise that it's "normal" to hand our kids off to total strangers for 9 months of the year; to have no window into what they do all day, unless those strangers ALLOW it. 3/

We need to stop accepting the premise that it's "reliable" to place our own adult lives in the hands of unelected bureaucrats for scheduling, planning, and monitoring; so even our OWN family dinner and bedtimes revolve around THEIR DECISIONS.4/

We need to stop accepting the premise that it's "healthy" to allow total strangers control over our children's BODIES and health, to the point where they assume literal legal authority to make decisions about how to medicate them, WITHOUT TELLING US.5/

We need to stop accepting the premise that it's "helpful" to our children to be monitored, tested, surveyed, tested again, and diagnosed (or NOT diagnosed), depending on the needs and/or budget of the bureaucrats, and not on the needs of our CHILDREN. /6

We need to stop accepting the premise that "teachers" or "educators," know more than we do about how OUR CHILDREN learn, suffer, cope, and fail to cope with stress; we need to follow the incentives where they lead, and accept what we find without making excuses for THEM. /7

We need to stop accepting the premise that it's even possible to provide an "excellent" education in a standardized "system." We need to question all assertions that it is, and STOP ignoring the MASSIVE amount of data proving it is NOT. /8

We need to START demanding our right to self-determination as PARENTS, and FAMILIES. We need to START standing tall, and asserting our primacy in our children's lives, irrespective of what other parents are or aren't doing. STOP outsourcing morality to others!/9

If our children suffer because we don't want to leave other people's children behind, that's not "virtuous" of us, that's not moral, and it might even be counterproductive. What if the best way to help others IS to help yourself, and your own kids? CONSIDER THAT. /10

I'm not interested in "saving" public schools, because I'm interested in advocating for PARENTAL RIGHTS, and CHILDREN'S MINDS, neither of which are respected by the public system. Never were, never will be. No incremental reform will change this fundamental reality./END

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