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The Case For Homeschooling: Childhood Bullying
School was a terrifying experience for some of us. Just in case you didn’t know.
I recently came across a comment on a Facebook post which very openly criticized and ridiculed homeschooling. It was put across quite sardonically, referring to how a homeschooled child would refer to a glass of water that was half full. Some of you might have come across that popular meme online about a half-filled glass of water and how an optimist, pessimist, and realist would refer to it. That was the meme this person commented on.
I noticed a lot of other similar comments online explaining how homeschooling would lead to dumber kids and how it would prevent them from gaining people skills in life. A lot of people don’t seem to understand why someone would choose to be homeschooled instead of going to public school. Childhood bullying happens to be one of the reasons why.
When someone is forced to go to an institution they don’t like or be around a group of people they hate, a lot of unintended things start happening. They might completely lose interest in what’s being taught at the institution and develop unhealthy coping mechanisms for much of the psychological abuse they face there.
BethPavlik from ‘Teach From Home’ perfectly puts my point into perspective in this Youtube short on homeschooling:
