• CO5MO ✨@midwest.social
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    3 months ago

    TY for sharing the article!

    “London, who has ties to the anti-government constitutional sheriff’s movement and tried to launch a local chapter of the far-right Oath Keepers militia in 2020, did not respond to questions.” No surprises here.

    Also, homeschooling parents complaining @ a school board meeting? Wtf?? 🤔

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      3 months ago

      Also, homeschooling parents complaining @ a school board meeting? Wtf?? 🤔

      Reactionary entitlement knows no bounds.

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      3 months ago

      Speaking as someone who was homeschooled by people like this K-12, it’s all about control. They only home school because it’s the only way to control what their children learn, but if they can control what all children learn, well, that will do just fine.

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        So like I get what you’re getting at, but even in the most altruistic choice to honeschool a child, where you are doing it so you can best meet their educational needs, wouldnt it still be a control level decision? You’d be choosing homeschool over public so you could have more control over meeting your childs needs

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          I’m not sure what you’re trying to say, exactly. People homeschool for a variety of reasons; sometimes that is to have more control over the learning schedule or to have more control over the level of stimulation a child receives. Most of these seem like responses to an emergent circumstance rather than a wholesale rejection of a system of learning.

          That seems like an unnecessary distinction though, since I already specified that this is about controlling what children can learn, not how or when.

          My parents didn’t homeschool me to accommodate a strange schedule or to ease any kind of social anxiety I had. They homeschooled me to prevent me from encountering anything that would challenge the idea that the God literally made the earth in 7 days six thousand years ago and that the Bible was the literal and perfect word of God.

          Seems like a different conversation entirely.

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            3 months ago

            Yeah ok, my bad, It was a reading fail on my part. You did indeed specify what they wanted to control and I entirely missed that and read it as control in general, so not only was I being pedantic, I was also wrong xD. Sorry about that!

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      I was reading another article about this same town (Granbury, Texas), discussing a massive bitcoin mining operation literally giving the people & animals there sonic damage. Anyhow, the cop there trying to make things better is also noted as a former Oathkeeper. So… I guess that’s part of the local ‘culture’ 🤦‍♀️

      Also, if you want to hear more in-depth coverage of Texas school district fuckery, one of the authors of the above articles, Mike Hixenbaum, has two podcasts and a book about it: Southlake (2021-2022), Grapevine (2023), and They Came for the Schools (2024). I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend any of them.

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      it would be a shame if a group of leftists turned the tables on him and made him feel intimidated. it would be even more despicable if someone just carried through on the threats and we never had to worry about that piece of shit ever again.