Post AyyrdnCRthGOwWZCfw by craftyguy@freeradical.zone
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 (DIR) Post #AyyrdnCRthGOwWZCfw by craftyguy@freeradical.zone
       2025-10-07T19:33:56Z
       
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       How do people who care about #privacy and #FOSS, who have children, come to terms with a public school system that "requires" signing children up for google products in order to teach them?I'm personally really struggling with this one. I could opt out... but then my child is going to feel excluded, teachers will probably hate us because of the extra effort this would impose on them to do their jobs, their educational experience will probably be "less" somehow, etc.
       
 (DIR) Post #AyyrdodQYsRDOUCGMi by joshua@social.mbbc.us
       2025-10-07T23:12:24Z
       
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       @craftyguy homeschool
       
 (DIR) Post #AyzYEvuwe0EylmlvEG by k8ie@toot.mcld.eu
       2025-10-08T07:09:39Z
       
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       @joshua @craftyguy This exactly. Not only will you avoid whatever suite of spyware but you also avoid having your child exposed to government authority from a very young age.Most school systems produce sheep, not freethinking humans. Children are people too.
       
 (DIR) Post #AyztnD3jW3hEoj4Hke by joshua@social.mbbc.us
       2025-10-08T11:11:14Z
       
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       @k8ie @craftyguy Also, as a general rule, homeschool kids perform better even on standardized tests.
       
 (DIR) Post #Az0AbpAXhIHwl5PTvM by craftyguy@freeradical.zone
       2025-10-08T14:18:59Z
       
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       @joshua @k8ie have you home schooled a kid?
       
 (DIR) Post #Az0TX4fUXhTSVeKoe8 by joshua@social.mbbc.us
       2025-10-08T17:51:11Z
       
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       @craftyguy @k8ie I actually teach at a private school. But my private school unfortunately uses google classroom also.I have assisted parents that homeschool.
       
 (DIR) Post #Az2NhjkQSBbXP1GOxc by craftyguy@freeradical.zone
       2025-10-09T15:55:44Z
       
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       @joshua @k8ie yeah homeschooling just seems... very hard for those of us with no experience as educators AND with a full-time job.
       
 (DIR) Post #Az2Utd95WeVW52PwzQ by joshua@social.mbbc.us
       2025-10-09T17:16:26Z
       
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       @craftyguy @k8ie It definitely is. It is virtually impossible if one parent cannot stay home.But if you can figure out a way to make it happen, homeschooling can be the best way to educate a child. Not all children learn the same way (which is why most schools fail also), so it may not be best for your kids, but I would say for the vast majority of at least pre-high school kids, it is best.