Parents and hypothetical parents, would you homeschool your kids and let them learn through YouTube/online, and at least one hour of reading a day? 👀

[#BOTHSIDES]

What would y'all do? This is for parents and non-parents... just for discussion.
I was reading this book, Don't Tell Me I Can't: An Ambitious Homeschooler's Journey

I checked out how kids are raised in Scandinavia and even the impact King Randolph has had on boys in Georgia.

 

[MajesticLion]

 

[WIA20XX]

 

[tuckgod]

Won’t have a choice soon might as well start them early

My school would be at least an hour of our future President and her Vice President

 

[Patrick Kane]

nikka said let them learn through YouTube

 

[DonB90]

Raise social awkward kids indoctrinated by youtube content my coli brehs

 

[ItsPeople]

nikka said let them learn through YouTube

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[WIA20XX]

My plan

1. Make enough money to support a stay-at-home wife.
2. Date Black Women Teachers, only
3. Find a good one.
4. Make sure you're on the same page about children and education. (and Blackness)
5. Have a kid.
6. Prophet/Profit!

I'm still working on #1.

There are a lot of dumb, often Christian, home schooled kids that end up in Public Schools and are straight dummies on top of being fragile social retards. (Paraphrasing my family members that are teachers)

The couple of Indian kids that win spelling bees every year, don't really counter-balance the thousands of White Christians/Montessori/Anti-Vaxxer/Trump Voter dummies.

And I've also met the Afro-Centric versions of this - and those kids are also dummies, because even though the parents are "educated", they're not educators.

Read all that "unschooling" stuff you want - but those are the outliers.

As bad as schools are, a bunch of middle class professional parents are worse.

That's what the pandemic taught us. He might be a Doctor, she might be a MBA, but they couldn't teach their little 7 year old for months on end.

And for Poor Black Kids, a lot of them haven't made up the difference....

 

[Richard Glidewell]

Not Youtube.......you have to curate a curriculum. Depending on state there maybe mandatory courses you have to teach h, but you can teach to the test on any bullshyt without having to go past the surface for bullshyt and then spend more time on things that actually matter and need to be fortified in their minds. shyt yall better figure out how to have your homes registered as charter schools or some shyt so you can get the money for your kids they trying to give to the right h folks

 

[Mank1nd]

Wouldn't matter if the kid doesn't know or care about learning shyt. Folks still lying to kids about careers they can't maintain and opportunities that they themselves didn't have when it's really about what they want to learn and what they're good at. Take a drive with your kid around town and see what they're interested in and save yourself the headache and financial peril of home schooling. You aren't doing them any favours by taking away a vital learning experience almost everyone else have went through.

 

[Yinny]

No, the social aspect is very important. His dad used to hint at pulling him out of daycare but I refuse.

You’re supposed to teach your kids at home but not as the primary for education. It takes more than being intelligent to imprint curiosity and learning and a like for it into young minds.

 

[⠀X ⠀]

They going to regular school. I ain’t trying to sit up with them lil ni66as all day

 

[O.T.I.S.]

I would need some kind of real curriculum dawg


If they watching something on youtube to learn I’m picking it and giving it to them as homework.

 

[Spliff]

YouTube and an hour of reading isn’t gonna cut it

Besides needing a stay at home parent…

You’ll want to link up with the other home-schooling families in the area. More than likely they already have a system going for group learning/events/playtime/etc since everyone recognizes solo-learning in isolation 24/7 only goes so far. You’ll be surprised how fleshed out some communities have things. shyt is crazy in NJ.

A lot of states will send you a curriculum, so you’ll have some guidance.

It’s usually not a forever thing. Mostly covers elementary and they end up going back to school. Often private or specialized schooling.

 

[invalid]

homeschooling as an alternative to formal education - no, i'm not interested in that. there are other factors in formal education that I find just as important as "learning", those of which, are not present in the home schooled environment.

homeschooling as a supplement - absolutely.
using youtube as a tool, possibly.
but i would need to see what experts and thought leaders recommend as the highest and best approach to incorporating a tool like youtube to maximize learning potential. would need to know the best practices. after I get that understanding, then i would incorporate.

i feel comfortable incorporating YT because i'm professionally trained in research - so i don't fall easy to misinformation or propaganda - demanding credible sources, citations, etc.

if a parent is not of this mindset from the beginning, incorporating YT as a vehicle for homeschooling will do irreparable damage to the child, even if it is incorporated the right way.

so i'm hesitant in advancing this for all. because, let's be real, the average person (parent) is not smart and neither are critical thinkers.