And going from there

Anyone in here interested in irl community building? I have some ideas I'd like to share

Flip yeah...I'm intrigued.

My idea focuses around homeschooling.

Deep down, I want a commune, but that's unrealistic for me.

I'm clueless. I have no children yet.

I want to cast a wider net. Something easier to get behind. Higher numbers

That's ok. Me neither. No girl either.

Adjust your time preference my nibba!

Same, cool. What's the concept?

Enough people you live close enough to to homeschool each other's kids.

With the goal of acquiring property and building an actual schoolhouse

Whether it's suburban, urban, rural, find a land close enough to build the structure where each and everyone can potentially commute to.

It came from me realizing that: I want a family; community; want to have kids educated outside of globohomo with strong values; this necessitates community since homeschooling your kids totally solo makes your kids weird; eventually will need a schoolhouse to further formalize and grow said community

it's radical but much easier to get enough people behind vs. a full on commune imo

Yeah, we need to find a suitable state...Arizona isn't bad, I would rather avoid vaccination, so that will get tricky.

physical structures and space is powerful

I'm open to location.

It's a shareable idea

something I want to talk out with interested parties

the idea is getting enough folks in the same area to really move forward with it.

Combination of reaching out via IE and locally, both tough in differing ways, to form a large enough group.

May or may not necessitate relocating for some.

It's a tangible project that, for me, is exciting. Building a schoolhouse. Our own institution

Even if you're single and broke, you can still offer up sweat equity. Contribute any way you can.

Those with families already can get involved with their own kids for the sake of their future kids and/or kids' kids.

No one in this movement, and those on the peripheries, are in the same point in life.

True

It won't be about just your own immediate family right now, it's working towards an ideal and getting as many involved as possible.

That's the main thrust of my idea, your thoughts?

Any ideas you'd like to share?

There are a lot of home schooling "CoOps", I don't know much about them. Maybe we can search statistics on where the largest homeschool population is...

There definitely are. They're just often VERY leftist or fundamentalist Christian. I don't relate to either.

I'm fine with faith, and having it in school. I just don't want the school to be a de facto religious program

The lefties are super "unschooly" and gay...I can handle the Christians but some of the ready made curricula I've seen suuuuuucks.

Good point I suppose

Yeah, bad. I'm less concerned with the curriculum.

Some poz has been snuck in

More concerned with numbers and a physical structure.

The more numbers = the more knowledge and experience we have to pull from for teaching methods and the like.

Yeah, everyday can be career day.