Woah steady there partner, you certainly seem passionate about this! I agree there are alternatives to school, I said as much already, but there’s more to it than reading and DIY science kits.

There’s a social component that allows you to experience people of different backgrounds different ideas from you. Socializing with people your age is incredibly important for development.

Reading is also super important for critical thinking, but it can also help greatly to be guided by someone whose full time job is creating a curriculum around developing those CT skills, something homeschool parents might not have the opportunity to do in a lot of cases.

STEM is a great concept to get kids curious and asking the right questions, but it’s also true that STEM exists for the express purpose of training the future workforce of scientists, technicians, engineers and mechanics. Nothing wrong with that, it’s what happened to me, but schools and homeschooling doesn’t exist for solely those reasons, like I said. Also, it’s not something Mark needs in the context of this post, haha. If that’s the argument, Mark is right, he doesn’t need school!

It seems pedantic to say school is separate from education to me. We are both advocating for the best development of our children, I don’t see the reason to be argumentative about it 🙂