Idzie on Nostr: "Homeschooling is fascist!" when fascists do it, yes, when leftists and anarchists do ...
"Homeschooling is fascist!" when fascists do it, yes, when leftists and anarchists do it (hell when most liberals do it) actually no, it's not!
We live in an adult supremacist society where the family and schools are both frequent sites of abuse. There are children who find respite from abusive homes in school, but just as importantly there are children who find respite from abusive schools with their family! Often children face abuse at both locations.
Youth liberation is desperately needed, and part of that project is a vast widening of possibilities for children, so that they have countless opportunities outside of either family or state control (the two of which overlap in many important ways). But in the meantime, making "education" solely the purview of the state is wildly dangerous and absurd for an anarchist to wish for. Homeschooling is a necessary option within the current framework, because more options for kids is actually better than less.
We live in an adult supremacist society where the family and schools are both frequent sites of abuse. There are children who find respite from abusive homes in school, but just as importantly there are children who find respite from abusive schools with their family! Often children face abuse at both locations.
Youth liberation is desperately needed, and part of that project is a vast widening of possibilities for children, so that they have countless opportunities outside of either family or state control (the two of which overlap in many important ways). But in the meantime, making "education" solely the purview of the state is wildly dangerous and absurd for an anarchist to wish for. Homeschooling is a necessary option within the current framework, because more options for kids is actually better than less.