#It's just shocking to me bc like. HONESTLY. I remember how we'd have this whole page in history class about how important education is and

[inthecarpets]

Hey, as someone who was unschooled, please don’t say that parents “do not care” to teach their children. It has nothing to do with not caring, in fact in my experience, parents of unschooled children care far more than those of schooled children. Are there bad apples? Absolutely! But unschooling is not out of a lack of care. My parents did not put me in school because they thought I’d struggle there, and frankly I do not think I would have survived school. I am much happier with the way I was raised than any of my friends who were sent to school are.

I also know many, MANY people who were unschooled like me that have successful careers and lives. Please don’t fall for the “well they didn’t go to school so they’re failures as adults” thing.

I wrote those tags written quick without bigger thought, my bad i apologize.

That being said if you happened to watch the video i mentioned in the tags, you'd hear how the youtuber mentions how much parents care, mentions the safety of schools with the shootings, the state of US education, and however how much said care can also ruin child's life sometimes. There might be plenty of children who ended up successful but also plenty who ended not successful. There are even comments under the video. (once again, a video by Kasia Baba)

Everything in life is nuanced. But like, I never said anything about "well they didn’t go to school so they’re failures as adults" since literally homeschooling exists and people can get schooling in individualistic ways? And very specific cases exist aswell.

It's simply absolutely wild to me that it's legal to not even teach your children Basic Math or Reading in the US. Because stuff like that in my country is Illegal. It's illegal. It's simply illegal here so Yes i'm going to think it's Wild. Education was boiled really deep in us bc education meant a job for decades.

Teaching basic math and reading should be mandatory no matter what. That's also why homeschooling in my country requires some kind of tests every now and then.

Like honestly, every child is different but also there still needs to be some kind of system in place bc most of normie parents couldn't Ever handle something like "unschooling".

In my non american eyes It's a very special kind of upbringing which should be reserved Only to very individual cases. There are children who'll learn how to read on their own and count on their own. But it's not all of them. I know that if it were me? I'd be ruined as hell because i was a slow kid.

Please note i'm seriously, Not American so it's natural such concepts would surprise.

[schizowitchic]

hhhhhh so the party drama is basically: only ppl who remembered their ids could get served (or like. actually had em in the first place. i don't have one) but loads of ppl went for pre-drinks anyway so it was pretty much "act as sober as possible so the hired bouncers actually let you in". so like fast forward 2 hours into the night, some mutual-friend-ish people start completely going off on one of my close friends (about something they willfully made a bad faith jnterpretation of what she said), i had to chase her down the street bc she ran away crying and i caught up, we had to spend a decent amount of time calming her down, went on a big long walk around the town bc i used to live there so i knew where to go. came back and it was mainly fine bc there was only like an hour left before it closed. arrived back for a really fucking good song. anyway a friend of friend also went through major drama with her friends, my friends boyfriend got two hip flasks confiscated which was whole thing (got them back at the end of the night). at the end of the night when everyone was standing around waiting to get picked up it was basically a bunch of people like "who has a lighter!!!!" and a circle of them attempting to light cigarettes. spoke to ppl i never normally speak to, guy I've known since i was six found out i vaped/drank and seemed to be going through it (everyone is always so shocked?) and i took a couple drags of my friends cigarette to really complete the image. two of my friends tried smoking for the first time. there was apparently someone who had had a crush on some girl for ages and he finally made his move at the end of the night so everyone was not subtly watching to see what happened. apparently there's a whole "breakdown of all the shit that happened" scheduled for monday. oh, and apparently the guy who was surprised i was doing typical party shit told my friend + her boyfriend he had a ccrush on me (my friend instantly ran over to tell me under the guise of wanting a vape/giving me vodka so rip to him. i don't think he knows i know). honestly he has like. not much of a chance considering im a) an emotional brick wall b) he seems to be nicer when he's tipsy than when he's sober c) im aromantic and i haven't decided if id want a relationship at all or not and d) last night was the first major conversation we'd had in a good few years and he doesn't speak to me normally. so im kinda gonna have to root for him on this since his chances are so low. it's kinda funny (i said to my friend that her bf could give him my snap if he really wanted bc it would be funny to see how this plays out). also someone got kicked out pretty much instantly and some people had definitely taken stronger shit than alcohol, either that or they were just incredibly incredibly wasted. also props to the bar staff + bouncers for putting up with a room full of teens yelling the wap, baseline junkie, before he cheats, and low at the top of their lungs. and i have no idea how some people didn't freeze in their outfits. and someone was wearing a giant inflatable penis costume. so yeah monday is gonna be interesting