BTW our homeschooling group was created by a 3x5 card pinned up at the public library. It said, "If you want to meet other homeschoolers, meet up at P*** Park at 11:00 am, Thursdays, bring a picnic basket, your kids and I will be sitting off to the side on a red blanket and I have short blond hair." That's all it took for a gradual growing homeschooling group that lasted for years! If you can avoid gossiping women, it could work. Eventually as the kids and group aged, people fell out, picked sides rich vs poor etc, and I gradually left the whole group. But there was lots of fun for at least 7 years. And the kids learned a lot. There were camping trips, parties, A group Boy Scout type group called the "Trackers", soap making, mud fights etc. The ones who grew up best had a moral background like with their church. The free range kids grew up pretty wild. One even embezzled a medical company out of millions and left for Jamaica. But most ended up good citizens, and were smart...smarter than what comes out of High School for sure.
We're homeschooling. We want to socialize our child by connecting with other local homeschoolers.
- There are literally zero local groups who maintain a current website of any kind.
- They use Facebook groups exclusively.
- They use GroupMe chats to organize and discuss goings-on.
- All signups for co-op classes or activities are done with Google Forms.
- All documents that are shared are through Google Docs.
- Photos from activities are shared on Facebook.
- Nobody involved knows that any of this is a problem.
I am completely lost on how to regularly participate without undoing all my hard work. Right now my plan is to duplicate their privacy-violating services with FOSS and self-hosted options, then try to find a few who will consider using those instead. They're tolerating me currently, but one is already obviously frustrated that I can't just be found and added to groups with the app.
I was blindsided by the ignorance of the homeschool community. There's very little thought present of freedom or sovereignty, in privacy or money. Everything is permissioned, centralized, and doxxed.
I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed. We'll keep on keeping on, but it would be nice to have some switched-on locals to supplement the good Nostr crowd.
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That's a lot closer to what I'd like. Just a calendar somewhere. Show up or don't. Our kid has grown up on Linux and GrapheneOS, also, so he's never been exposed to all this centralized social crap.