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		rayiner on July 2, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: If you’ve considered homeschooling, what’s... > but about civic education, teaching students not just to be pupils but to be democratic citizens and active participants in public life. As if that happens in American public schools lol.

tptacek on July 2, 2022 [–]

It does in some more than in others. Oak Park schools did about as good a job with this as any school could have.

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