congratulations man! glorious news. first thing i will say is this: it's great you're thinking about this now, you are doing the right thing, and you are 10000% "qualified" to homeschool. anyone who tells you differently is a statist cuck. it will not be easy, but it will be worth it. every year that goes by, i grow more and more grateful to my parents for the gift they gave me by homeschooling. i tell them this frequently.
okay, now onto business, the first thing you're going to want to do is... if someone questions your decision to homeschool, say to them "curious... i didn't know you were so nazi-aligned... when did you first start subscribing to adolf hitler's views on compulsory public education?" then send them this:
Nazis Hate Homeschooling
Homeschooling is the greatest defense we have against totalitarianism. If the State controls the children, the State controls the future.
that should buy you some time while they contemplate why they hold the same opinions as literal nazis...
while they'll grappling with their own feeble worldview, you have time to read lots of John Taylor Gatto. he was a public school teacher for **30 years**, won new york state teacher of the year award, and used his award speech as an opportunity to talk about everything wrong with public school. his books are great.
@Daniel Prince first put me onto him (we talk about homeschooling almost exclusively in this episode we did together:
) . i couldnt believe i hadn't read him before but i was also homeschooled personally myself and my wife married me so neither of us took much convincing on the homeschooling front. even so, i find his writings incredibly beneficial in terms of really "naming the beast" and clearly identifying and diagnosing the underlying rot/disease in the public indoctrination system.
i'm also adding
@Brandon Gentile into this thread. he's in the trenches of homeschooling right now with multiple young kids of different ages and we talk about homeschooling for a good portion of our recent convo (
)
glad you also tagged
@Erik Cason in this because one of the things that has me really excited about homeschooling in this era is the access to incredible AI tools that we couldnt even imagine when I was homeschooled in the 90s. I remember erik telling me and
@HODL a story about how he walked in on his son learning to code out of nowhere one day thanks to working with an "ai tutor" -- Erik maybe you can provide the name of the system/curriculum your son has been using? it's honestly wild to think how far things have come since i was homeschooled... shoutout to my mom for doing this in a very analog way.
you already tagged
@George Mekhail as well and are reading his book which is great, so i'm guessing you already checked out the episode we did together
(we're probably overdue for another, george)
maybe just a general note: something that will make your homeschooling experience (and more importantly, your kids' experience) exponentially better will be having a strong *local* community of other homeschool or hybrid school kids. these days we obviously have so many more ways to create communities online, and that's going to be super valuable, but the meatspace still matters (perhaps now more than ever, actually).
okay there's a lot more to say but i'll leave it at that for now. congratulations again to you and your wife!
