whiskers165 [she/her, she/her]

It was not accredited as a private school. I was participating in a home school program administered at a church. I graduated from a home school program, I worked on home school curriculum, it’s a subtle distinction but no just because there’s kids in a building learning does not mean it’s legally a school

There were several other Christian private schools in my area and they were nothing like my program. They were stricter and more intensive than public school, complete opposite of what I experienced

I finished high school at a private Christian home school program that functioned like a small school run out of a church. Four days a week, late start to the day, get out hours earlier than public school. There was Bible verse trivia in every subject but they only counted as extra credit. Creation in the biology class

Honestly shit was way better than public school. My public school was a cursed mold infested nightmare build on top of an old plantation and the descendants of the slaves work there as janitors still bearing the same name as the school. The teachers at the home school program was just as good but much much nicer and more permissive. Hats on inside, take a snack break whenever, iPods on in class. Only like 10-20 kids per grade level, everything was really personal.

At public school they would be oppressing us, sick from the nasty environment, strict rules, constant trouble, kids acting horrible because the environment was so toxic

Say what you will about Christian homeschool but done right it’s a massive improvement over the nightmare that is secular public school in the American South. I graduated and went to college earlier because of Christian homeschool. Public school had me needing surgery every other year because of how bad the moldy environment was fucking my body up.

You say it’s not democracy in one breathe and then in the next you say it’s “[adjective] [adjective] democracy” which makes it sound a lot like it actually is democracy

Are you the type of person who thinks it sanitary to wash your hands in the toilet water?

Yeah, the stalls lock but the sink is outside the lockable stall. Just a toilet and door. But I guess you can wash your hands in the toilet if that’s how you wanna live

I can pee without touching anything but my pants. Why tf would I wash my hands? Sink has got to be dirtier than my pants. Low dexterity MFers can’t pee without touching their genitals a bunch and getting piss all over their fingers

Also I’m trans so if it’s a multi stall public bathroom I’m not definitely not washing my hands because people are transphobic

Reddit algorithm feels like it’s trying to brainwash me. The admins and mods are unaccountable and out of control. The owners are capitalists, I will never trust them.

Theres lots of content but it feels like dead Internet. The niche communities are nice but not amazing. I don’t want reddit owners and shareholders privatizing niche communities anymore than I want Facebook doing it so I refuse to participate. Short term pain, id rather build the fediverse up and post here even if it takes a long time to manifest a bigger more fulfilling platform.

For the same reason I don’t invest in stocks or the market I don’t want to participate in niche communities on corporate owned social media platforms. I dont want to invest in a future where the capitalist class is empowered through control of my retirement or savings. I don’t want to participate in a future where the capitalist class controls the platforms where I engage with my communities online.

I don’t have time to go through everything wrong with your post but I want to touch on Chinese vs American literacy rates for a moment

In America while the total population literacy rate is often cited at 99%, functional literacy (the ability to manage daily living and employment tasks) is lower, with estimates placing it between 65% and 85%.

China’s literacy rate has grown from 79% in 1982 to 97% in 2020.

In 2018 PISA results,15-year-olds in China outperformed U.S. peers in reading, math, and science. Some analyses suggest about 20% of U.S. 15-year-olds do not read as well as they should by age 10.

In the 2018 PISA China ranked first globally in all subjects. The U.S. ranked roughly 13th in reading and 37th in math among 79 education systems

Youth literacy in the U.S. is facing a crisis, with 25% of 16-to-24-year-olds deemed functionally illiterate as of 2023, up from 16% in 2017. Roughly 60% of U.S. teens do not read at grade level, and 34% of fourth-graders perform below basic reading levels.

In 2020, youth (15–24) literacy in China reached 100%.