i'm not entirely against homeschooling, given our current public school system is trash, but i do think it enables a certain type of controlling parent. i was "homeschooled" (more like unschooled) and my parents somehow lost all of my identification documents when it came to the beginning of my adulthood.  getting my ssn card and birth certificate reissued and confirming that i wasn't an undocumented citizen was a huge pain in the ass and took almost 5 years to do.  not to mention, i hadn't been to a doctor since i was very young at the time of this and i had no medical records either. i was able to pull myself out of it and get a normal good paying job with raises, and i was never super uneducated and illiterate, but i think that boiled down to my inclination to learn and read about things. if i wasn't the kind of kid to do that, i think i would've been fucked for life, honestly. | my survivorship bias doesn't mean i would ever think what my parents did to me was a good idea, and unfortunately, my story is extremely common with homeschooled kids. (and yes, i was also sheltered and my parents never bothered to socialize me either, but i was able to help myself)
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