Ask HN: If you’ve considered homeschooling, what’s stopping you?

Re:Ask HN: If you’ve considered homeschooling, what’s stoppi... by pawelmurias on Friday July 01, 2022 @12:29PM (#31948888)

I know a lot of people that are super heavily influenced by traumas inflicted by their parents. Homeschooling someone is a lot different then your average lifestyle (that possibly wasn't that different between the adopted families)

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Re:Ask HN: If you’ve considered homeschooling, what’s stoppi... by actfrench on Friday July 01, 2022 @12:34PM (#31948963)

Are they less so traumatized by their parents when they go to school ?

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Re:Ask HN: If you’ve considered homeschooling, what’s stoppi... by swatcoder on Friday July 01, 2022 @12:41PM (#31949070)

Sure.

Along with respite, school gave me access to countless alternatives perspectives, influences, and people that would become part of my coping strategies.

I’m absolutely certain that home schooling is great for certain parents and certain children, but some kids are better off not being around their parents quite so much.

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Re:Ask HN: If you’ve considered homeschooling, what’s stoppi... by kennywinker on Friday July 01, 2022 @12:51PM (#31949218)

That’s a pretty deeply unquantifiable thing. How do you measure trauma at the scale we’re talking about? Self reporting will only reflect the trauma people are aware of, and mental health diagnosis are basically just self reporting one-step removed.

As far as I know we’re stuck in anecdote and personal opinion territory, until we have a better way of quantifying the kind of low-level trauma of a non-abusive-but-still-damaging childhood.

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