Forced herding of any group anywhere anytime is always going to result in painful outcomes for the one who sticks out for any reason.
Home schooling has now become an elite signaling too. Extremely normal non-extravagant-show-off families need two incomes just to achieve a modest life in any urban area. Public schooling has always been a …
Forced herding of any group anywhere anytime is always going to result in painful outcomes for the one who sticks out for any reason.
Home schooling has now become an elite signaling too. Extremely normal non-extravagant-show-off families need two incomes just to achieve a modest life in any urban area. Public schooling has always been a form of babysitting and even in the prosperous '50s there were plenty of families who needed that.
But I agree the schools are truly abysmal now. Martyr Made has a great series on Blacks and Jews (paywalled but worth it in my view) that gives an excellent history of what happened to big-city public education.
Where I lived the home schoolers were farm families who did not like what was going on in the schools. They worked from home so they were available to do the teaching. The kids also learned a lot about farming from gardening to tending the chickens and feeding animals. As they got older they learned to drive tractors and mechanical maintenance skills as well as carpentry. Girls learned all the home economics and sewing. but they all learned bookkeeping and business skills. (This was the 1980s and 90s into the early 2000s for refeference to my experience with it)
Urban and rural areas are entirely different cultures from each other. And I think after you reach a certain size, no city is really able to sustain a decent life for all its inhabitants. Probably the Sumerians could have told us that but nobody ever listens, do they?
Forced herding of any group anywhere anytime is always going to result in painful outcomes for the one who sticks out for any reason.
Home schooling has now become an elite signaling too. Extremely normal non-extravagant-show-off families need two incomes just to achieve a modest life in any urban area. Public schooling has always been a form of babysitting and even in the prosperous '50s there were plenty of families who needed that.
But I agree the schools are truly abysmal now. Martyr Made has a great series on Blacks and Jews (paywalled but worth it in my view) that gives an excellent history of what happened to big-city public education.
Where I lived the home schoolers were farm families who did not like what was going on in the schools. They worked from home so they were available to do the teaching. The kids also learned a lot about farming from gardening to tending the chickens and feeding animals. As they got older they learned to drive tractors and mechanical maintenance skills as well as carpentry. Girls learned all the home economics and sewing. but they all learned bookkeeping and business skills. (This was the 1980s and 90s into the early 2000s for refeference to my experience with it)
Urban and rural areas are entirely different cultures from each other. And I think after you reach a certain size, no city is really able to sustain a decent life for all its inhabitants. Probably the Sumerians could have told us that but nobody ever listens, do they?