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Social Media's Cringiest Conservative Is Running for School Board -- As a Democrat
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haha no it isn't, don't be absurd about topics for which you only scratch the surface in knowing anything about. Please further don't pretend you're a child psychologist who has the end-all interpretation of understanding what children need.
You refer to homeschooling in stereotypes as though every homeschooled household is the Turpin family. Your frame of reference is squarely based on on the worst offenders that hit the news headlines. Yet throughout university you probably didn't realize there were many of us in your classes who socialized just fine and aced classes in a variety of difficult majors.
You stereotype homeschooling from these outliers; such pointing to worst offenders is like if I were to point out the prevalence of school shooters and teen suicides public schooling produces and the associated risks and blanketing that as a reason to not go to public-school. It's almost like there's a bit more nuance than you lend credence. I'll even be willing to submit cons that should be addressed and considered before anyone else considers for themselves.
So if you're really interested in extending this beyond your shallow understanding, then please, let's engage in this wholeheartedly and I can provide with both reason and evidence precisely why you're incorrect. You miss a wide variety of benefits from homeschooling that I'd be happy to walk you through if you are genuinely interested in going beyond mere stereotypes.
For starters, please separate religious fundamentalism from the act of schooling; these are two separate things and secular homeschoolers like us who believe in science and quality education exist.
Signed, a homeschooled person now in his 30s who excelled in a STEM field and is now married with 2 kids to a publicly-schooled wife who agrees with the merits of homeschooling.
Buddy, if any of these are big words to you, then perhaps that public school education isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Otherwise, do tell if I'm misusing any words, alright? Let's go one-by-one and discuss. But isn't it absolutely remarkable that you have to commit an entire paragraph to make an Ad Hominem attack against me? To nitpick by fucking diction of all things...? With that Masters degree I guess I'd at least expect witty brevity.
Can't win with you folks... If I let loose my Appalachian roots you'd call me simpleminded and my vocabulary weak and a result of my homeschooled education; if on the other hand I respond with a tight comment that predicts arguments, you get defensive that I'm holier-than-thou and condescending. The bottom-line is you're looking for shit, obviously.
Please read the previous user's comment. They literally called what I went through and what I do for my kids, "child abuse." Fucking absurd. As you can imagine this isn't my first rodeo and I kind of figured what I was getting into making such a statement.
That you tell me to calm down as you decide to comment in a filled thread from hours ago just speaks to your own lack of introspection (is that a "thesaurus" word for you, too?)
Honestly, I'm just looking for good debate. I think most people here are far more worked up than I am. I just know how to fight fire with fire and some of you seem to take issue with that.
By the way, evidence was provided below. At this point, nobody gave evidence -- so why am I held to a higher standard than the dude who called it child abuse? lol.
I've yet to hear exactly what was so controversial about my initial response to a comment that literally generalized child abuse across all of homeschooling... Again, where is your outrage over that? Where are you interrogating them for sources? I matched aggression at every point in these threads. Where you see those sources linked, I held a reasonable conversation with far less aggression -- did I not? You see it goes both ways.
Truly. I genuinely wish you could just reach your hand out and other users would reach a hand back out and we'd sing Kumbaya. In my experience that just doesn't work and you just get rolled over. I had to be assertive to dispel any notion of the original argument -- for which has not in conceivable way been addressed. In other words, this massive pivot to attack my character or how I said something is a clear deflection to the actual substance of the topic at hand.
I'll treat anyone with the utmost respect if they bestow the same to me. Otherwise, I'm dishing it right back at you. So to be clear, the insults directed at me have fundamentally dwarfed anything I've said beforehand.
Should be noted that the original user who made that comment finally responded and we generally saw eye-to-eye.
Fairest comment yet, and I recognize your attempt to rein the conversation back in — so thank you for that.
Well honestly, I think this is for better or worse just how I write. Feel free to look through my comment history but I didn't consciously go out of my way to write differently here any more than elsewhere except for maybe dot my i's and cross my t's a little more tightly, knowing that any low-hanging fruit I leave behind will be cannon-fodder for an attack against me (too dumb; too arrogant, etc.).
I enjoy a healthy written discussion. What really gets under my nerves are insincere double-standards when people are reading these threads.. When you write from a position of the minority, knowing what you're writing is unpopular but still have strong convictions about it, you recognize the uphill battle that is going against ingrained beliefs and bandwagon/ad-populum fallacies. I'm fully aware one should be on their best behavior when in these situations, but it can be difficult to maintain perfect composure when you're taking blows left and right and anonymous down-votes despite any substantive response to the points being presented. I just wish people cut me a little more slack when the user basically said I suffered child abuse and am committing child abuse to my kids without merit. I suspect most here wouldn't maintain composure either under such audacious claims.
I had the sources from the start but I figured (a) The initial user made an outlandish claim, didn't back it up, and nobody interrogated them for evidence, and (b) even when you provide sources against people who want to believe otherwise, they often just dismiss them outright or cherry-pick relentlessly. But duly noted that I should maybe just lead with that next time.