Over the years, I have been writing about misconceptions regarding the schooling process. The purpose of these posts is to explain why I disagree with various comments that I have heard people make about schooling. These are meant as personal thoughts rather than conclusive proof, and I will admit that I'm not always the best at explaining my thoughts. Regardless, I have decided that I should be willing to share these posts when I encounter someone online who makes an argument that I have already discussed.
There has been a hard push lately to address chronic absenteeism. I have already discussed how I want to handle this. If a school harms a child to the point that the child fears their assigned school, that child should be allowed to leave.
Most of the people who bring up chronic absenteeism simply want to push children back into the schools that are harming them. These same people who seem to lack a grasp of the problem frequently resort to the same argument. Children can't learn if they are not in school. This doesn't actually diminish my solution, and it's an absolutely absurd argument to make.
If children aren't in school, how can they learn to walk? If children aren't in school, how can they learn to talk? These are things that children are already learning outside of school. Obviously, it's possible to learn elsewhere.
I should also repeat myself. Everything had to be learned outside of a schooling environment before the schools can teach those lessons to students. Because of how this model works, there is nothing that can be learned in school that can't be learned elsewhere.
The argument about being unable to learn outside of these institutions fits very well with a common theme among supporters of the government-controlled schooling model. It can be defeated with nothing more than common sense. Children definitely can learn if they are not in school. There are even obvious examples of this occurring. If these imbeciles really want to force resisting children back into government control, they need to come up with something better.
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