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Alyson Archibeque's avatar

Hi friend. Your proposal has me tearing up at your first point—end compulsory education. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Please read what I’ve written on education. And I’ll go look for the stuff I’ve written and not posted.

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Megan Mills Hoffman's avatar

I saw your note about California... I'm in New York which is pretty close, lol. Looking forward to building the buzz. Best wishes...

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Alyson Archibeque's avatar

My goal is the ensure all children have access to this. Without broad societal change fast, the percentage is too small. I don’t have answers yet, just questions about what’s left behind for those who can’t (or shouldn’t) choose to homeschool.

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Megan Mills Hoffman's avatar

The matrix changes as quickly as we can shift.

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Alyson Archibeque's avatar

💜💜💜

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The Hidden Clinic's avatar

Nice post, reminded me of a scroll that resonates with the broader critiques of academic elitism and the disconnect between academia and real-world issues. How can we make academia more accountable to those outside the ivory towers? https://thehiddenclinic.substack.com/p/to-the-ivory-towers-that-forgot-the

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Megan Mills Hoffman's avatar

I imagine the same way the Catholic Church became more accountable ... allow them to get to the point that it becomes so egregious that people simply must act differently. But wouldn't it be swell to find the stamina to act before it gets to that point? I do believe its already happening. Ex: Very few parents are as devoted to the culmination of a college degree as they once were.

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The Hidden Clinic's avatar

That's a sharp parallel. Inertia as insulation, til collapse forces change. I often wonder what it takes for a system to hear its own silence. Maybe its not just about critique anymore, but cultivating the stamina to feel before the fracture. Grateful you're writing in this space. May the threshold arrive before the damage calcifies.

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Megan Mills Hoffman's avatar

Absolutely 💯 its about feeling! Its part of why I write so much about the spiritual path of sovereignty... we've got to be able to listen to the small still voice within things, and its a practice that requires development to function well. ❤️ glad you're here!

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Brian D. O’Leary's avatar

The first solution is to ban unions for government workers.

Schools are a jobs program for adults.

The educational apparatus has outsized power because of its unions that negotiate against the bureaucracy (also government union).

Fix this and sanity has a chance. Your program is on point, but until these unions disappear, it will be like running into a stone wall over and over.

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Megan Mills Hoffman's avatar

certainly a solution, but I prefer simple doable by the population kind of efforts, lol. Absolutely agree on your point about jobs programs... if teachers realized the ways they could work with students they ENJOY working with, while having control over their schedule and income - WHOA. Except for those of course who prefer to pretend the world is a secure place and they want someone else to tell them what to do

I believe this is the bigger problem... too many of us keep buying into the fallacy that security is real. That's not the way the world works and the sooner we can come to terms with what we can't control for, the better off we'll be. Meanwhile, we need to do more of the internal self-development that you eloquently make a case for.

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