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Re:Ask HN: If you’ve considered homeschooling, what’s stoppi... by jdasdf on Friday July 01, 2022 @07:35PM (#31954427)
>We often believe the point of school is the academics, but I would argue it's the social.

It's neither. The point is propaganda and brainwashing, any other benefits are ancillary at best.

It isn't a coincidence that widespread schooling came about in a time where propaganda, nationalism and centralization and expansion of state power were on a high note, and such trends have only expanded since with the help of the propaganda and brainwashing conducted in those schools.

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