Comment on ‘No no no. Avoid them all’: anti-vaccine conspiracies spread as UK cases of measles increase
beetus@lemmy.world 10 months agoDoesn’t work when homeschooling is on an intense rise (in the US as example) nheri.org/big-growth-in-homeschooling-indicated-t…
echodot@feddit.uk 10 months ago
It’s quite uncommon in the UK. They won’t homeschool their kids, they have jobs and careers themselves the only people who tend school kids are the lower working class who typically have a parent who doesn’t work and can therefore do it.
It’s not common for the middle class parents to homeschool their kids. Then the other classes don’t do it because although they could afford to have a teacher invariably it’s looked down on something only the poor people do.
HeartyBeast@kbin.social 10 months ago
Agreed. I live in the UK, I was a school governor. You are, however giving these middle class folk who are deep down the rabbit hole an incentive to move to home schooling - or possibly to organise into independent "home school schools".
Personally, I think compulsion is a poor way to convince people about public health measures. It may not work and is likely to lead to more conspiracy theory- we have to be smarter than that.