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[โ€“] whiskers165@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It sounds like you went to private school.

[โ€“] whiskers165@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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