Reflections on Society: Home school (redux)
Home schooling children has been a topic that is becoming more talked about lately than ever. When I first began my podcast back in 2011 one of the first topics I talked about was homeschooling. I discussed the importance of social interaction And most actually teaching children.
On my previous podcast episodes and blogs I've mentioned something called "Low effort parents". I see so many of these in today's society. A quick recap of who these losers are, they're the people who have kids that run amok and destroy everything in sight. They don't watch their children worth shit and are always pawning their kids off on a babysitter, ipad, or tv. They also get upset with whoever is watching their kid and claims they do a terrible job, yet ironically enough they don't take the effort to do an equal or better job.
When enough is enough, the low effort parents will step in to show who's in charge. This usually happens with the schools. Low effort parents whine that their kids aren't getting enough attention in the classroom. So they pull their children out of the classroom to show that egghead of a teacher who's in charge of their child's future. The irony is, the kid went from not getting enough attention at school to now not getting enough attention at home. Teaching takes effort, and effort is in short supply for the low effort parent. They can’t be bothered. They’re too busy with pinterest, fantasy football, or having an affair. Raising children is hard, so instead of giving their kids a valuable education, they give them hard ignore.
The low effort parent will go through such great lengths to brag socially about how busy they are raising their kids, making a living selling essential oils, and going to church. Yet, they still find time in their busy schedule to go to gym, blog, feed their pinterest addiction, and keep up with their rigorous facebook posting.
Now that you’ve received a crash course in how terrible low effort parents are, I can now address why this applies to homeschooling. When I talk negatively about homeschooled children, it's because of low effort parents aren't putting any energy to even bother teaching their kids. They vastly over-estimate their abilities to "educate" their children. They think that just by saying they are home-schooling their child, it is somehow better off than a fresh Harvard graduate.
Growing up I knew a family that had several children who were having a hard time adjusting socially. Instead of trying to help their kids with their social skills, the parents decided to pull their kids out completely out of public school. Thus they were home-school. Except they weren't being homeschooled. They were running amok and not learning anything. They craved knowledge, rules, and social structure, which they got from MySpace. It ended with them getting pregnant from random people they met on the Internet. I'm positive that their kids aren't going to be sent to public school, because they were homeschooled and they turned out "fine" (at least in their mind). Thus continuing a cycle of creating socially inept people.
Like most people with common sense, I think education is fairly important. I will agree that public education needs a massive rework, but homeschooling as a first choice by low effort parents is not the answer. Homeschooling and teaching takes effort. I've met some amazing people that were homeschooled because their parents put in the time and effort to actually teach their children. Those are the people who give homeschooling the great name that the low effort parents seem to latch on to and parasite off of.
I'll break this down into a social scenario if you know someone who is generally super lazy and brags about homeschooling their kid's chances are they aren't teaching them anything and doing homeschooling completely wrong. Bonus points, if they also talk about "hard work" all the time, because those people are lazy as they come. - MCS1
