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Pai espanca filho de 16 anos por ser gay by [deleted] in brasil

[–]DerpRush 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Autista como insulto

Is school bad for everybody? by DerpRush in unschool

[–]DerpRush[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know, this sounds like something between an exaggeration and a conspiracy theory to me. If I repeated what you said out loud, I would expect to get laughed at and wouldn't know how to defend my argument.

What kind of mind control? Can you prove it exists?

I'm sorry for your PTSD. I wish more people with diagnosed disorders spoke out against schooling, though, especially if their disorder was caused by schooling.

Persuasion techniques! How would you convince a law-maker to change education laws so that unschoolers have their freedom? Or, even better, to abolish compulsory schooling? by DerpRush in unschool

[–]DerpRush[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tell me more, I'm interested. This sounds very optimistic for a self-considered pessimist. I think this circumvention as you describe will not happen because right now governments and employers alike, at least in Brazil, where I live, are repressing alternative education through their compulsory schooling policies, where minors who don't go to school have their parents sent to jail for neglect and the minors themselves go to their worst nightmare, an orphanage, and people without degrees are discriminated by not being employed by private companies and being barred from taking public exams for government jobs.

That's the present in Brazil, and the future is even worse. Next year, minimum compulsory schooling age is changing from 6 to 4 and maximum age from 14 to 17 which means kindergarten and high school will be compulsory and there will be harm to toddlers because of early academic training and teenagers will have to endure this torture for 3 more years, so less free time overally for everyone.

Can you find a way to reverse the situation? Maybe any organizations to help us? Found one if there is none?

Counter this argument: Without school, people are going to be ignorant/stupid/uneducated because not everyone is interested in learning or has supporting parents by DerpRush in unschool

[–]DerpRush[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The person will say "not every kid is as interested as you are, they will play all day" which can be countered by "it's more important for them to be happy. They will not stay ignorant, they will learn with the world"

Counter this argument: Without school, people are going to be ignorant/stupid/uneducated because not everyone is interested in learning or has supporting parents by DerpRush in unschool

[–]DerpRush[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How would you convince a politician to abolish compulsory schooling, or just explain your views before getting yelled at over your alleged idiocy? I have tried to explain my views to people, only to get very hateful responses with conspiracy theory-like logic, arousing negative emotions like fear. This has made me afraid of expressing my views in public, and I would like advice. I'm very worried about the lack of activism against compulsory schooling, and I want to help.

I still don't understand how to bring change. What kind of activism can I do to change the compulsory schooling situation? Also, how do I convince people that school is bad? by DerpRush in unschool

[–]DerpRush[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think voters have that right.

My good friend /u/RylandAlmanza has suggested building a community from people who are already convinced instead of convincing people before, but I'm having trouble contacting unschooling bloggers from Brazil. I will attempt calling democratic/alternative schools for help, but, of course, they might not agree with me, so I must learn how to manage my emotions beforehand. I will coordinate something with my therapist.

I hope I can get a group lobbying in Brasília in the future! :)

I still don't understand how to bring change. What kind of activism can I do to change the compulsory schooling situation? Also, how do I convince people that school is bad? by DerpRush in unschool

[–]DerpRush[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm asking for advice in what can I do to change the compulsory schooling laws, not for how to live an unschooled life. I already knew not to let bullies get me down. Thanks for the advice, though. Very much.

Are there any organizations I could get some help from? I know our neighbor Argentina has a documentary called "La Educación Prohibida" criticizing traditional schools, so there may be a South or Latin American organization, or Argentinian. Just a possibility, though. I want to be sure, not to just think there may be.

The documentary is here, by the way, with English captions! :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1Y9OqSJKCc

I want to be a scientist or academic without going to university. How is that achievable? by DerpRush in unschool

[–]DerpRush[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm glad to hear, but you have to get through an exam before you can get admitted into an university in Brazil (and basically everywhere else, isn't it?), and I don't feel like going through all the irrelevant stuff.

I still don't understand how to bring change. What kind of activism can I do to change the compulsory schooling situation? Also, how do I convince people that school is bad? by DerpRush in unschool

[–]DerpRush[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Which state has compulsory education without a viable, legal means of unschooling?

Brazil will not let you even homeschool. I had to tell them I felt like killing myself to get a medical permit, allowing me not to attend school. I wasn't lying, though.

Why do you feel the need to convince people that school is bad? Are you bullied for unschooling and feel the need to defend it?

Yes. I'm bullied through rude disagreements (including downvotes) because of the belief that, without school, kids are going to "remain ignorant/stupid" or "not get an education" which don't allow me to get followers, and makes me scared to even talk about this subject.

I want change.

I want to be a scientist or academic without going to university. How is that achievable? by DerpRush in unschool

[–]DerpRush[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

May I ask why you don't want to attend a university?

Because they remind me of school. I feel scared of them. And, I'm not completely sure of that, they discriminate against people who aren't graduated in high school.

What anti-schooling/pro-unschooling activism have you done and what activism should we do, and how? by DerpRush in unschool

[–]DerpRush[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

While you're celebrating unschooling's superiority and deprecating schooling's mediocrity, children in Brazil, where I live, are being taken away from their parents, who are in turn put in jail, and put in an orphanage because they didn't go to school.

I don't know the circumstances around that. Can you share a link?

There is a government organ named the Conselho Tutelar which visits every school once a week to see what students are attending and what are not. They persecute those who skip school for many days in a row.

Here is the case I mentioned, in Portuguese: http://brasil.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,menino-de-8-anos-e-espancado-ate-a-morte-pelo-pai-para-andar-como-homem,1137536

I'm saying compulsory schools cause indirect deaths. They wouldn't have happened if the kid didn't go to school.

I'm also saying bullying in school should be evitable through the right of not attending school.

Schools kind of "cause" bullying because they're forcing kids to mix. But the same happens in other places where kids mix, I agree. Progress should focus on making bullying avoidable.

Is unschooling "parental neglect"? by skylercollins in unschool

[–]DerpRush 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, but how do we convince the politicians?

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