To me, that isn't so much home schooling as alternate schooling. Yes, you are at home, but your parents are not providing your curriculum, some (usually) online source is, that you have to pay for. I have always had 2 issues with homeschooling, aside of the occasional blinders it results in for religious reasons: 1) it takes some of the most engaged parents/families out of the public system in a way that waters down the experience for others; and 2) it is another example of mothers solving the world's problems for free, since it is usually mothers who stay home to implement it. But that is all for another thread and topic.
I seriously doubt Joe Biden with his Catholic background would oppose anything outside of public schools. If nothing else, Catholic schools (and apparently online curricula) have long been a refuge for students ill served by public offerings. His wife as an educator would know the real pros, cons, and success rates of the various educational options.
I find it noteworthy, though, that you would consider Biden morally on a par with Trump, or somehow not a moderate. His life experiences seem to have given him a real appreciation for hardship and compassion for others, something that has escaped Trump entirely. He also does not hold with the more progressive ideas within the Democratic party, such as universal health care as supported by candidates like Sanders and Warren. Biden seems about as middle-of-the-road as one can get now. He is not my first choice, but he is far from the last. He supports a significant number of positions that I hold, and I think will behave honorably on the world stage as a statesman rather than a buffoon. I disagreed with the first President Bush on many things, but could not fault him here. We have seen for the past 4 years what happens when we are represented by people who have no respect for the office, or those it is supposed to serve.
Meant to get back to you as well.
To me, that isn't so much home schooling as alternate schooling. Yes, you are at home, but your parents are not providing your curriculum, some (usually) online source is, that you have to pay for. I have always had 2 issues with homeschooling, aside of the occasional blinders it results in for religious reasons: 1) it takes some of the most engaged parents/families out of the public system in a way that waters down the experience for others; and 2) it is another example of mothers solving the world's problems for free, since it is usually mothers who stay home to implement it. But that is all for another thread and topic.
I suppose most "anti-homeschoolers" suggest anything that is not a public school or physical private school is negatively impacting a child's ability to think for themselves or do well socially. I constantly get comments of how they're surprised I'm so outgoing since I was homeschooled, as if every homeschooler is a shy socially anxious individual. I am a bit socially anxious now, because some people have helped me feel that way. It had nothing to do with my alternative schooling at all. I can see how perhaps it does take away from the schooling system. However, with a broken system that often does ignore the different needs of each child, how can an engaged parent navigate something which refuses to change? I do not think I would have done so well with school in a traditional setting. I suppose some would've thought I had ADHD as a child (some people still think I do at times, lol) because I just was not good at sitting and concentrating for extended periods of time. I wasn't good at listening to instructions and remembering a lick of it. My mom found interactive ways to encourage me to learn, and little ways to keep me focused. I feel I am the excelling student I am today because she was able to build an educational route that was individualized to the approach I needed. School's try to be a one-size fits all sort of thing and often the children suffer for it. I'm not thinking of it as some terrible indoctrinating place, but more I see so many flaws in that system where we just teach to a test. There has to be a better way to prepare people for the world. Most businesses today complain of lacking professionalism, or soft skills (mainly related to empathy, communicating with others). But we are still trying to assume every child is similar and therefore we all teach the same way to the same set of students for years to come. Maybe if those engaged parents were in the system perhaps they COULD say something. I don't like classes telling me what to think or believe - I love my college instructors who have challenged us to be skeptics, "little scientists", to search, watch, test things we see, things we believe even because confirmation bias can be messy. To constantly take every interaction as a learning experience, positive or negative. Idaho's schooling system is an absolute trainwreck though, so if you have examples of some places actually implementing a different thing, that'd be amazing and I'd love to hear where schools are trying to innovate their methods.
I find it noteworthy, though, that you would consider Biden morally on a par with Trump, or somehow not a moderate. His life experiences seem to have given him a real appreciation for hardship and compassion for others, something that has escaped Trump entirely. He also does not hold with the more progressive ideas within the Democratic party, such as universal health care as supported by candidates like Sanders and Warren. Biden seems about as middle-of-the-road as one can get now. He is not my first choice, but he is far from the last. He supports a significant number of positions that I hold, and I think will behave honorably on the world stage as a statesman rather than a buffoon. I disagreed with the first President Bush on many things, but could not fault him here. We have seen for the past 4 years what happens when we are represented by people who have no respect for the office, or those it is supposed to serve.
I would jump to say, without question, Joe Biden in heart is more moral than Donald Trump. However, you may call me a conspiracist, but I only see this going one direction: Kamala Harris.
Joe Biden has off and on, stated things which show a deteriorating mental state. Some of the threads mention these and acknowledged it during the primary race, so it is not something we can pretend is in fact not there. He has a history of being a bit...well handsy as well. I could see perhaps he didn't majorly assault her, but perhaps a woman would dislike being touched in such ways and consider what Joe Biden does a form of sexual assault/harassment by today's standards. So I do not immediately toss the sexual assault claim that was made out the window as something to derail his campaign. Although the complete bias standards offend me. Anything Trump or a conservative does would immediately be believed and "cancellable" while we merely sat around and tore apart the person who accused Biden as a false trump pawn. Isn't it kind of sad that they cry believe the victim, but basically only believe the victim at all costs if it is convenient for you... Joe Biden in heart is a true moderate. I read his voting history. He is someone I could get behind. Here's my problem:
I feel within months of getting into office, Biden will be deemed unfit, be removed, and Kamala Harris will be made president. I think that's why it took so long for him to get a VP, they basically wanted to decide who they REALLY wanted as president, to make them the VP, so that when Biden loses out the one they want gets in. I find that pretty shady in itself. Also how no one wants them to debate. It is likely a debate may show his state isn't the best. The debate may not go well. It'd ruin the big picture plan. So I don't feel like I'm voting for Joe Biden, I feel like I am voting for Kamala Harris. I don't want Kamala Harris. I really don't want most of what the "democrats" are right now, because they aren't Democrats. A lot of them are socialists walking on the democratic ticket, like how some not republicans walk on the republican ticket. I liked Tulsi, she was fairly moderate about issues I feel more moderate about and had strong liberal stances on other things I agreed with. I don't feel I would've minded Elizabeth Warren if she could've just stopped lying. When she focused on the actual data and campaign at hand she made more sense. Not a big fan of Bernie Sanders when he compliments Fidel Castro, or that level of change. We need someone to fix the corruption within our system, not necessarily change the entire system, because all that'll happen then is you change the system but the corruption still exists so they'll just corrupt the NEW system. There's some things I agree with though (universal healthcare, more tax on the rich, definitely not against any environmental regulations) but I don't want open borders, I don't think we should just blindly let people in (good vetting system), I don't feel raising minimum wage is going to help things because those greedy companies will just inflate their prices to make up for it. I mean, does anyone really think Jeff Bezos is a good ole' liberal soul with his 200B dollars that obviously isn't going into things to make their working conditions better or employees paid more? Yeah, they pay somewhat more than walmart, but during this crap while they spewed their ridiculous commercials their own employees were walking out due to unsafe work conditions. None of these businesses claiming to support these ideals are really "bleeding hearts". They bleed whatever gives them good publicity to get your money in their pocket. I don't wanna be their token business giver. I'm finding ways to heavily support local small businesses now because these giant businesses are going to destroy this country and no one is stopping them at all. We need to start regulating the rules about not being monopolies again. Because too few people are running the chain, so now we are at the mercy of these businesses. It's pretty scary honestly in the big picture. I wish I could tell you I knew how to fix America, I think we all have ideas but don't know what to really do. I think if everyone stopped being polarized and looked at each other we could almost all agree on one thing: Something in this system is broken. If we did that, we could finally build a bridge. I feel like much of what's happening right now between polarized politics and people protesting in the streets and the mainstream media skewing everything from both sides, is division. As long as we are divided, we cannot break the chains of a broken system. Both political parties play into this division. As long as the lobbyists keep paying them and nothing changes their status quo. That's why I get frustrated that this is automatically just a "Biden isn't Trump therefore he is the answer". No, neither one is actually the answer. Both are products of a very broken 2 party system. I wish someone would just begin a campaign to write in a candidate, an actually good candidate. I may not necessarily love, or agree with AOC on most things, but there is one thing I always find very inspiring about her - she came from nothing, she lived in the heart of America's mess, and she got elected and she's trying to do SOMETHING. Most of these elected officials have come from money, they've come from a place where they didn't have to see the poor or the broken spirits within America. And they've forgotten them, they treat people as an ignorable number. And both parties have ignored so many of the needs of the people for so long. But we ignore it under the guise of we are republican or democrat. I encourage everyone to take the lens off, and see them as what they are where they are.
