I knew someone who tried to argue that the south wanted slaves to count as a whole person! Yea, Josh, they wanted to up their population numbers so they could control more of the government. They didn't want to actually give them any fucking rights, you idiot.
Probably, honestly, homeschooling is almost always a detriment to the child unless the parents fully embrace their role of teacher as separate from caretaker. Also, not pumping the kids' heads full of your own misunderstandings. One of the few times where teaching straight out of the book is recommended.
I had a roommate who was homeschooled. We also worked together. We are in Alabama. He has a fetish for black women but was also raised super Christian so he only wants sex after marriage.
One day he was giving a black woman coworker a ride home and offered "reparations" by giving himself to her in marriage. I couldn't believe it when she told me what he said but I asked him about it and he confirmed the details like it wasn't an incredibly insane idea.
His personality screams narcissism and believes himself to be worth more than most people. He used to be extremely obese and is now in shape so congrats to him for finding self confidence but he just went overboard with it.
I suspect you mostly know of the homeschoolers who basically replicate school at home. I was "homeschooled" but we hardly spent time at home. There was a large, vibrant community (Boston MA) of other homeschool families, we got together for field trips, park days, etc; parents would teach classes that were open to other families (for example, I took a class on probability taught by the dad of a friend) we also used so many amazing local resources, from the library (my home away from home!) and so many museums etc. Homeschooling is an awesome OPTION for some families. It gave me the time to spend on my interests without keeping up or slowing down for a class. And yes, somehow I did have a social life, since that's always the number one concern. I hope to homeschool my 3.5 year old. Child-led learning a la John Holt is the way I was raised and I am so grateful.
So please don't lump us all together, we are not all abusive, or religious nuts, or etc.
I was homeschooled in the south and am totally anti slavery and have made the "states rights to what? " comment more times than I can count. But I know I'm not typical of a homeschooled kid in the south, my family isn't from here. And your comment is pretty fair and funny, just not always accurate
Nah, I went to highschool in for a couple of years in SC, and they worked real hard to teach kids that slavery wasn't part of the civil war until Lincoln made it such.
And that was "only" so he could have more soldiers than the south.
The south simply wanted to fight for state's rights and totally would have naturally ended slavery on their own. 🙄
We live in an age where people have easy access to information, and not just the Internet, which can be hard to distinguish truth from fiction a lot of times, even just the ease of getting books. So if John is an adult, that excuse's effectiveness starts to fall off pretty quickly with every passing year
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u/Wessssss21 Jul 12 '24 edited Jul 12 '24
Ehh about 3/5's a person they might say.
Edit: I'm fully aware of how the 3/5's compromise worked legally... I am making a joke