Why Homeschooling is Becoming Hipster

Townhall.com ^ | January 28, 2013 | Katie Kieffer

[cycjec]

I am no expert on this, but I thought “hip” and “hipster”
are both decades old. I have no personal experience of the
older usage, only print.

If a current “hipster” is 21 or so, and his parents were
30 when he/she was born, then they were too young I think
to encounter “hip” and “hipster” in the earliest usage.

[cycjec]

people whose parents were boomers, and a too large percentage
of people whose parents were earlier “love me, I’m a liberal”
types have much to reject.

although IMHO “hipster” doesn’t quite capture what needs
to be rejected.

[PaleoBob]

I asked her what she needed one of those for, the government will take care of her. No response.

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For every leftist state and every leftist there is a cliff’s edge somewhere. She probably realizes somewhere in her being that her pet philosophy is responsible for all the recidivists walking around. But as long as they are killing or raping someone else it’s OK.

[Walkingfeather]

We have homeschooled from the beginning. We are just at the doorway of of teen years. 12 &9 year old’s . I would be very surprised if it did come. I just dont see it in them in their identities. One thing I have recognized however is those friends that go to public school appeared to not want to associate with our kids if they were not the same grade as they were. There is almost an institutional discrimination that is installed in them. That grade level is a social caste system that is the hierarchy of value as a human. We saw a sudden shut off of some kids value of friendship once they realized they didnt share the same grades. I wonder if this is the actual core of the problem that happens. This view that only your caste is important and all loyalties outside caste is verboten. I think this may be how the teenage rebellion is actually fueled. Rebellion needs support and energy from the outside. So as parents tell their kids to focus on their work at school, they are the ones actually transferring their children’s loyalty to their caste. Kids feeling jettisoned from the only security they have only known in the family, finally turn and then rebel against the parents for the rejection.

[EternalVigilance]

I’d love to be on the homeschool list if you would be so kind as to add me.

[wbarmy]

Not to be confrontational, but did you still keep the television in your home? Anybody watching the stuff produced by Hollywood will get that attitude.