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| Public schools don’t magically manufacture humility. They’re factories for social hierarchies based on athletics, looks, popularity, who has the newest sneakers, or whose parents have the biggest truck. Kids learn to stand in line, sure—but they also learn to mock the weird kid, the poor kid, the farm kid who smells like livestock, the homeschooled kid who shows up awkward at first, or anyone who doesn’t conform to teen social theater. Bullying, cliques, and performative cruelty aren’t bugs; they’re features. Plenty of public-schooled trust-fund kids (and plenty of public-schooled influencers) turn out every bit as arrogant, entitled, and obnoxious as the guy you’re seething about. Arrogance comes from bad parenting, weak character, and zero accountability—not from missing mandatory government seating charts.
Your evidence is one influencer who gets excited about grain legs and 24-row planters. Newsflash: farmers who actually love their work get excited about equipment. That’s not “screaming like a toddler”—it’s authentic enthusiasm you clearly don’t share. Mocking hired hands on video? If that’s accurate, call it out as bad behavior. But pretending only homeschooling produces that is laughable. Public schools churn out plenty of main-character syndrome kids who film minimum-wage workers for clout too. The difference? Homeschool families often emphasize work ethic, chores, and real contribution from a young age. Many public school kids are insulated from real responsibility until their 20s.
Homeschooling doesn’t create a “microcosm of arrogance.” Done right, it creates a microcosm of values, high standards, and individualized attention—often producing better academic outcomes, stronger family bonds, and fewer social pathologies (lower rates of substance issues, depression, etc.—data bears this out repeatedly). Public school forces exposure to “diversity,” but that frequently means learning the lowest common denominator social rules from peers whose parents “work two jobs” or have “nothing.” Exposure alone doesn’t build character; guidance does. Plenty of public school grads emerge with chips on their shoulders, victim mentalities, or elite-level entitlement. Generational wealth + bad character produces toddlers regardless of schooling. Blaming the curriculum is lazy.
You admit the curriculum is “questionable,” teachers “overpaid,” and basics like cursive are gone—but somehow public school still gets credit for preventing “30-something toddlers”? That’s the cope talking. Successful homeschooled people (farmers, entrepreneurs, athletes, scholars) exist in droves precisely because their families opted out of the factory model. Your influencer is reaching millions “telling farming’s story” while you’re anonymously mad about his personality on a forum. Social media rewards spectacle—true—but character is revealed in private life, not 60-second clips you cherry-pick.
Taxes funding public schools don’t make the system virtuous. They make it compulsory. You’re not noble for paying them; you’re legally required. Supporting choice—homeschooling, charters, vouchers—would actually introduce real competition and humility into education. Forcing everyone into the same building doesn’t equalize; it often entrenches resentment.
If the guy’s content is cringe to you, fine—change the channel. But using it as proof that your tax dollars are buying moral superiority is just envy dressed up as farm-gate philosophy. Real humility comes from self-reflection, not forced proximity to other people’s kids. Plenty of public school products never learned it. Plenty of homeschoolers did. The data, outcomes, and basic logic are on the side of educational freedom—not your nostalgic defense of the institution that “taught you your place.”
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