About this episode
The episode discusses the concerns surrounding traditional schooling and advocates for unschooling as a response to negative social environments in schools.
Concern regarding schools in the media usually has nothing or little to do with academics but something to do with it being a bad environment for students and teachers. There are two thoughts that should spring from that observation. The first is why are people so concerned about “socialization” issues when it comes to the home educated? Do they know that they are saying every child should be exposed to a self-esteem destroying, violent social environment? Do children really need to be subject to abuse, bullying and jungle warfare to develop normally? The second observation is that curricular concerns are rarely mentioned outside of the push to normalize deviant beliefs and behaviours. Perplexingly, no one has connected the deviance to the violence now found in many schools. One of the main reasons parents choose to home educate or unschool is their concern about their children’s exposure to bad social issues at school. However, most do not tie the bad social behaviours to the bad ideologies being advanced to normalize what God has not sanctioned. In fact, we are now judging the authenticity of the Bible against our desire to do as we wish. Should any part of the Bible condemn…
People in this episode
Host: Léo's Insights
Topics covered
- unschooling
- home education
- socialization
- curriculum concerns
- bad social behaviors
- religious beliefs
Keywords
- unschooling
- home education
- socialization
- curriculum
- violence in schools
- religious beliefs
- bad ideologies
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: the Bible
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