I used to think HOME SCHOOLING was for right wingers, people who did not want their children exposed to people of another religion perhaps. Then I thought it was also attractive to people who felt they could do a better job than the school or teachers in their district, who maybe couldn't afford private educations. I saw that it was attractive to people who could live on one income since it was often stay at home mothers who were the teachers. Thus it became an extension of motherhood or parenthood. Though some people manage to have stay at home mothers while financially struggling and sacrificing - such as sacrificing their own careers - I still think home schooling is more haves than have nots. (There is also the educational level of the parent(s) to consider. Are they actually capable of teaching their children so that they are grade appropriate?) And then there was Covid - 19 and school closures and more women in the workplace being let go than men.
There was (and is) a trend towards working from home rather than commuting. There was (and is) a trend towards liking this. And as more children have depended on home schooling, it has become clear that one of the reasons parents do not want their children in a public school is because they do not want their children having friendships with children who are badly behaved, drug users, or criminals. It became clear this year that it's also about the parents value system and so their politics. I believe this has all had an effect on children learning to socialize and have company and a classroom experience, and is a negative when it comes to diversity - the knowledge that other people are not like you - that there are different cultures.
But now there is a new reason to home school. The thought police.
KUSI COM : SCUSD and WHITE PRIVLEDGE TRAINING
Excerpt: The NY Post reported that the , "San Diego Unified School District began the sessions with instructors telling the faculty members that they will experience "guilt, anger, apathy and closed-mindedness" because of their "white fragility," according to leaked documents obtained by journalist Christopher F. Rufo.
I would never sign such a thing. I do not agree it describes me.
As a person who has not had a DNA test but assumes she is "white" I'm pretty disgusted with the thought police trying to make me hate myself for this nonsense privilidge. I've met many "people of color" who were better educated than me and had better jobs and better luck or whatever than me, but I honor them for their achievement.
Stereotypes of white people and teaching self hatred is not going to end racism. This latest is a call to internalize racism and apologize for an accident of birth. It assumes that whiteness means I think and am a certain way.
I have met racists. I didn't like them. They were not all white people.
Of Polish descent I have been taunted for it here and there, off and on, all my life. We're supposed to be dumb and servile. I've heard from a British woman circa 2000 that all Poles are alcoholic. (She added the dismissive hand wave) when my parents barely drank and I've never experienced a reason to by in an Anonymous. Of Catholic heritage I've heard and experienced the anti-Catholicism, even though present day American Catholicism is, well, almost Protestant.
I'm beginning to wonder where it ends. I suspect that books that offend will be burned. Libraries will have to scout their shelves for books that may be offensive that they aren't sure about. Maybe read the whole collection. Imagine all the books by men that offend women! A bonfire! And if a person of color does something nasty to you, a white person, and you sue them, perhaps a court will excuse them and tell you you're just too white to find their behavior acceptable.
Stereotyping begins with the assumption that all people of a certain, race, religion, class, sexuality, or whatever group or groups are out there to be part of, ARE ALL THE SAME.
Teachers can teach HONEST DEBATE, RESPECTFULLY DECLINING TO AGREE, HISTORICAL CONTEXT, THE LIVES OF AUTHORS, and so much else so that a person can use their own experience and reasoning to decide where they are at with issues. And people can change as well.
The uniformity of thought certainly offends creativity and originality. You can't write a character than might offend someone though in reality there are plenty of them out there or who is not YOU. There goes research and experientials and imagination.
Teachers. Poor teachers. Their classrooms will become bare if the home schooling continues. They will find themselves out of work or moving to work in another school district that isn't so biased.
It makes me sad.
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