My kid is just about to start school. I’m currently living in California where the state-mandated curriculum is… not terrible in terms of historical and political education. But I’m also in a fairly reactionary part of California.

Given how expensive it is to live here and the relative geographic freedom my job has, I’ve been contemplating if we should stay here. Doing my best to set my kids up to be leftists is pretty much #1 on my list.

So where do you all think is a good place to raise your kids to help them grow up to be leftists - both generally or specifically?

Fwiw this is one area where I do think it’s better to be around “liberals” than reactionaries. At least with liberals you tend to not have history lessons about how slavery was good actually and your kids feel social pressure to go to the evangelical mega church that all their friends go to.

Or maybe literally none of this matters, everywhere in the US is basically the same and I should just be where I feel I can be the best parent?

Edit: I should mention, I’m white and my kid is white so I think being in a diverse place is important too, admittedly California is pretty decent in that regard.

  • Weyland@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    37·
    14 days ago

    Leaving an area just to get them a slightly better political education (something you should provide to begin with), and forcing them to leave behind their friends and (possibly) family is a sure fire way to get them to despise you, rebel later in life, and reject your worldview.

    Instead, if you have the money, and your kids have decent enough grades, take a (half) year off and travel around or even find friends abroad which have kids of the same age who can become penpals.

    Just make them worldly, and give them the political and historical consciousness required for them to draw the conclusions themselves.

    • HexBroke [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      4·
      13 days ago

      forcing them to leave behind their friends and (possibly) family

      I sometimes see people post things like this and fuck me dead, how good was your childhood that you think having to move around is a significant issue

      • Edamamebean [she/her]@hexbear.net
        English
        7·
        13 days ago

        just because other people have been through worse in their childhood doesn’t mean that moving isn’t legitimately upsetting and destabilizing for many children. It’s not a competition

        • HexBroke [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
          2·
          13 days ago

          Before you use this comment thread as a trauma-dump

          I posted in response to your hyperbolic statement about, I suspect, your own trauma:

          [Relocation is a] sure fire way to get them to despise you, rebel later in life, and reject your worldview.