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.
nostr:npub18dlusgmprudw46nracaldxe9hz4pdmrws8g6lsusy6qglcv5x48s0lh8x3 Curious to hear your thoughts or suggestions on this, also.
Homeschooling needs to turn into a proper movement instead of it just being a parental or household decision bubble that is often misunderstood as isolating a child from society. When in reality it’s a move against a terrible school system.
Good luck, cheesey. This is a massive effort.
I would say that it is now a movement in many areas in the US.
Texas is now doing school vouchers, so the homeschoolers will possibly get $2k back for that. Maybe more people will elect to split from the public system. It won't help the normie problem, but it's something.
Do the vouchers come with over site on how you homeschooled and picking an approved curriculum? I am in a state that give parents 100% sovereignty to homeschooled anyway they choose with absolutely no over site or need to register or anything.... But most parents opt for the vouchers that come with enrolling in a district and meeting particular requirements. Homeschooling independent from the system has become so rare and radical that I'm afraid they will take the option away once someone remembers its there. In the 80s and 90s all homeschoolers were independent from the system and now almost none.
Not sure. I suspect the final version will be compromised somehow. As it is, the vouchers will go to "those who need it most" first, followed by a lottery.
Ya I don’t think this is going to help true homeschool families who aren’t following a curriculum of the states choosing. I’m happy to be wrong but when I looked, they had carved out language that favored true homeschoolers
the state schooling system cost me getting a CS degree, and sent me right off the track, because they were so outrageously, egregiously corrupt.
and they funnel people into this meat grinder. it's not for nothing that Pink Floyd analogises school system to a sausage factory.
