#Only homeschool

[p0is0n-is-th3-cur3]

if this goddamn post gets 5k notes I’ll ask my mom to send me to the art school I want to go to but I’m too scared to ask

[giddlygoat]

i was at my friend’s graduation party hanging with other teenagers once and the group was bragging about how fast they had each gone on the highway, so i made a comment of concern. as one does. and one kid looked at me and he said “oh, come on! live a little!” like some sort of 60s horror movie supporting teen character who dies in the first 5 minutes to which i say “no thanks; i’d rather live a lot” which to this day i think is the best retort i ever spat on the spot

[planetcleer]

my silly little headcanon is that for the rest of their lives ben calls eddie ‘doc’ affectionately after eddie fixes him up. imagine the adult losers meeting at jade of the orient and ben saying softly & fondly “hey, doc, long time no see” as he pulls eddie in for a hug. imagine ben running back out of eddie’s room at the townhouse and crouching next to him with his hand on his shoulder and saying “shit, doc, are you okay?” while bev tends to his stab wound

like. bro. that shit’s fucking cute and is actually fact i’ve just decided

[nixthelapin]

The irony of Émilie leaving her rich, restrictive family to explore the world only to also restrict her kid to the house and a social group that’s just an extension of her own

[greater-than-the-sword]

Gonna fight everyone on the Homeschooling poll

[divinelovers]

very much yes

[dimsilver]

btw re: the homeschooling debate and related things - this site has been absolutely wonderful for getting to appreciate people who aren’t automatically My Sort of Person. it’s actually opened my eyes to look for and enjoy all sorts of things about in-person people that I don’t automatically connect with. I’m not even sure how to express this but basically this site of such a good outlet for people’s inner selves that I am constantly confronted with the richness and complexity and honesty and quality and beauty of people who aren’t super similar to me and I think that’s awesome.

[roguemonsterfucker]

Random but I’m still so bitter about the time someone visited my kindergarten class to teach us sign language.

And I kept asking her about animals in sign language because I was animal obsessed.

And she kept just fucking finger spelling them!!!!

This was very much a case of the “I know more than you” meme.

Because I already knew some sign language! My sibling couldn’t talk for quite a while after they were born so we did sign language instead. I never was fluent or anything but I knew a lot of animals and basics like please and thank you. So little five year old me knew you didn’t just finger spell every animal name. 🙄

Anyways I’d love to properly learn ASL someday but last time I tried it didn’t go well. 😅 I still know a ton of animal signs though!

[gxlden-angels]

Bro I hate fundamentalists and culturally-fundie parents they'll say shit like "spare the rod spoil the child am I right haha yea my parents used to have to beat my ass with a switch almost everyday but I sure did learn my lesson" but like??? no you didn't??? you were hit multiple times for something you very obviously did not, in fact, learn

Like studies about how harmful even lightly spanking children is aside, you're literally contradicting yourself?? Some even admitted they got worse as they got older cause they wanted to see how far they could push their parents before they got punished

And studies not aside, you're gonna get child raising advice from the same book that tells you to stone your wife if her hymen doesn't break on your wedding night instead of the decades of research we have now?? Just say you're a bad parent and move on my guy. Skill issue

[hairtusk]

i orbit quite 'crunchy' spaces online (because i enjoy gardening, growing my own food, mending my own clothes, wearing natural fibres and non-chemical cleaning) and the amount of home-schooling and specifically 'unschooling' posts i see make me fly into a rage. you people are the reason that my entire job is to teach teenagers how to read from scratch because they don't even know their phonics.

[nickbutnodick]

fuck. one summer left.

[moominpopzz]

Do y’all think Ashe has sat there and begged the other three to just tell her what being able to go to school was like for them… how it felt to sit in a classroom, how it felt to be able to have lunch around others and what they’d have, how intimidating the hallways were and if there were really cool clubs to join.. what having that party felt like, even. What having those people around to have the ability to have a party was like. Cause I do. Cause I do a lot

[anakintwinkletoes]

✨ Christian Homeschooled Kid Aesthetic™ ✨

[septembersung]

[webhead3345]

The LU Chain in Volleyball

I spent all day watching my siblings play Volleyball with their teams, and had this thought of what the Chain would be like on a team of their own.

Time: Quiet coach. He tries to grow team spirit by making the team take disciplines together, but also knows how to quietly take aside a player who is struggling and help them in private.

Warriors: Team captain. Hitter. The type who knows he’s good and is frustrated when everyone else isn’t communicating or playing as well as he knows they can, but tries to encourage out real potential and not let his irritation get to him.

Twilight: Ace hitter. Anywhere he is he’ll get the ball over and through the most consistently. He can hit right or left handed. He’s the type of player who apologizes a lot, who looks intimidating but is actually sweet, and who calls himself out to the refs (which irritates some of his teammates).

Sky: Setter. He’s good at making sure everyone in his team is doing well emotionally. He’s encouraging and sweet, but has an uncanny precision and control of his sets.

Four: Libero. He’s a very balanced player, and very good at noticing the morale and emotions of the other players, and good at making jokes where necessary, or at showing himself a good defense to bolster confidence. He has quite a few brothers and they were raised in such a way that they have learned teamwork very well. He rivals Warriors for best team player.

Legend: Back row. Loves blocking when in the front. He’s been playing the longest of any of them, though he’s had a different team every year he’s played. He’s been in higher divisions (though home life has him playing on this smaller team now), and he knows all the rules and the way things are supposedto be and it bothers him when things are disorderly, unprofessional, or out of place. Sometimes his perfectionism gets on his teammates’ nerves.

Hyrule: back row. He’s very good at defense. He’s the type of person who quietly plays the game, kindly goes through the motions and cheers everyone on, but doesn’t do (or expect) a lot of interaction outside of practice and play and so knows very little about his team and vice-versa. He is a little bemused to find that this team doesn’t quite run that way, but he enjoys it when he gets to spend extra time with them rather than being on a loner team like in his past.

Wild: hitter. He subs in for Four when the libero reaches the front row. He’s wild and friendly and encouraging, but he bears a lot of baggage from his last team which wasn’t the best. He and all his teammates were put under a lot of pressure and he lost all joy for the game before transferring to this team. He feels like the failures of his past team all falls onto his shoulders, and many of them quit playing altogether from that experience. Sometimes, when he gets stressed or forgets this team is different, he’ll fall back to a serious and tense persona and seem the opposite of his normal cheery self. This is very bad for on court communication and team morale.

Wind: He has experience as the oldest on his previous teams and now he’s the youngest and least experienced and it’s grating to him. Everyone expects him to be worse because of his size and age and he’s mostly a bench warmer. He subs in on occasion (most often to replace Wild in one of his moods), and in those times shows himself competent. He has to play off the net because he’s so short. He’s not as strong or fast as some of the others, but he has a consistency born from captaining and helping carry his past team.

[vicontheinternet]

As someone who was homeschooled with a structured curriculum unschooling sounds horrifying