i do think we should advocate for minors to learn more about online safety but when i see people just like. regurgitating the old "stranger danger" rhetoric and insisting the way to solve the issue is for minors to be banned from the internet or for their parents to be constantly tracking them it's oh yeah i'm sure no child has every been abused by a family ever. and that isolating them from any other adult with varying perspectives is not like the standard tactic of like. conservative homeschool parents, or religious communities or cults or anything like that.
the fact that wanting to have full control of your child's education is seen as some sort of dogwhistle for right-wing extremist indoctrination is utterly ridiculous.
there's a hundred different reasons why it's perfectly justifiable. maybe your local district uses outdated science textbooks. maybe your kid needs a different math curriculum because the default doesn't suit them. maybe you want them to read classic literature that is banned in the public schools. maybe you want to incorporate more outside education time. maybe your family fasts for religious reasons and you want to structure your children's school day to accommodate that. maybe you think the school's approach to sex ed is inadequate.
if you hear someone wishing they had more control over their kids' education + express interest in taking them out of public school, and the first thing you think is "they just want to indoctrinate their kids" .... then congrats, you fell for the anti-homeschool/anti-school choice propaganda.
It REALLY is fucking funny how there is genuinely a distinct third faction in AI discourse on this site that is not "Pro-AI" but "The anti-AI crowd is talking about divine sparks of creativity and shit and I'm not about that"