Homeschooling is like the third-rail for so many education conversations. Let me just say… my mom was a public-school teacher, and that is a huge influence on my perspective on education and homeschooling. I think there are some legitimate reasons for some parents to homeschool, and there are some cases where homeschooling is probably the best option for certain kids. That being said, I do think there are too many homeschooled kids and too many utterly unqualified parents who homeschool their kids out of bigoted, ignorant and/or fundamentalist-Christian reasons. Well, speaking of, Kourtney Kardashian and Khloe Kardashian basically had the most ignorant conversation about their kids’ education.
Kourtney Kardashian is not worried about raising bookworms. The “Kardashians” star — who shares kids Mason, 15, Penelope, 12, and Reign, 10, with ex Scott Disick and son Rocky, 1, with husband Travis Barker — revealed that she believes sending children to school is “so dated.”
“I think living authentically is not conforming to whatever it is,” Kourtney said on the latest episode of sister Khloé Kardashian’s “Khloé in Wonder Land” podcast, which dropped Wednesday. “There’s ways we function as a family that … it’s like if someone does the same thing every day. Like I do it with everything, it’s not about our family…Like, let’s say the school system. I’ll think, ‘Why do kids f–king go to school?’ Truly. It’s so dated.”
Khloé, 40, interjected in agreement, saying, “Oh, I’m such a homeschool person, so don’t even get me going.”
The Poosh founder then said her kids have sent her videos about “successful people” whose kids never go to school.
“And then I’m like, ‘What’s the goal here? You want to do homeschool? Let’s do it!’ Or whatever it is. I think it’s anything,” she continued.
Kourtney also shared how she chooses to take care of her infant children when they get sick.
“I will, like, nurse the fever of my kids versus giving Tylenol or ibuprofen,” she confessed. “I just want to do that. And whatever it is, there’s so many things like that where I feel like I kinda do, maybe in the world generally does maybe more what I do, but in the United States [it’s different].”
It really is two dumb bitches telling each other “exactlyyyy.” And not for nothing, but Kourtney sounds like an anti-vaxxer. She sounds like one of those “natural” granola-types who preach “do your own research,” meanwhile their kids can’t even read. The point of sending you kids to school is not only “educating the future workforce and creating responsible young citizens,” but it’s also about socialization and simply experiencing life beyond your family. These are fundamental concepts which no one should have to explain to a nearly 50-year-old woman with three children! “What is the point of school” OH MY GOD.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Kourtney’s IG.
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That’s the problem when you reward uneducated idiots.
They could always have tutors but given their father was a lawyer, this is all nepo-baby talk.
To be rich, idle and to be this dumb really is the true definition of an idiocracy.
IDK, I feel like this a passive aggressive knock on Kim for finishing her law studies.
Good point. So some jealousy again from the dumb sisters.
Can’t wait when these sisters have to find “educated” people to help them deal with their scrapes.
Kim’s law degree was essentially a homeschool program. She didn’t go to law school, she studied on her own and with a lawyer mentor. So want this be more of an endorsement of her choice to do a homeschool law degree?
Kourtney actually has a college degree from a large, PUBLIC university!
The Kardashian kids don’t need to work a day in their lives, so fine, whatever, don’t go to school. You clearly won’t starve. But STFU about traditional school being some dumb, waste of time, concept that you don’t understand why it still exists.
The world is on fire, Kourtney, and people are dying. Education, by qualified professionals, are all most of us have to set us up for a stable life. I’m sorry we didn’t sell our souls for attention 20 years ago (and every day since.)
I think it has become increasingly clear that there are a lot of rich folks out there who simply do not care who dies. They are actively advocating for a world in which poor and even average-income kids don’t get schooling, medical care, clean water, a place to live, etc.
They have truly proven to be a vile, vile family.
Thank god for all these comments. Vacuous idiots like these normalizing ignorance is so, so damaging to young women watching these shows. I know none of them need to be educated on world affairs or climate change or math, but those are CRITICAL to society. Reality bimbos consumed with their own lives are not.
The goal of school is so that they can have a conversation with actual adults — which clearly these two cannot.
Seriously! Between the two of them, I don’t think they managed one complete, coherent sentence.
Part of school and this is my issue with homeschooling is learning to be a member of society. While it’s true that a lot of public schools are under funded and over crowded, and maybe kids aren’t mastering long division, they’re learning about sharing spaces and resources with different kinds of people.
The Kardashians never learned how to be contributing members of a community.
As someone who sits on the bench for truancy hearings this statement makes my ass twitch
None of my kids have her means. She just feeds into a narrative they cannot afford to use
This sh*t makes me want to scream. Why is being ignorant aspirational? Why is being an idiot prized above being educated? Why tf are we still giving this stupid f*cking family air? They offer nothing of value.
They are aspirational: “Because you too can be rich like her.”
Let’s face it a woman’s beauty has been lauded above her intelligence in the patriarchy.
You can be dim but pretty, you’re fine.
You’re ugly and intelligent, no go.
You’re intelligent and pretty, that’s good as long as you’re not smarter than the men or don’t show them up for being dumb.
Since women have entered the workforce – thanks to school and education – and made their own money, they’ve threatened the original role of men as breadwinner. Now that you have these two idiots parading themselves as hating school but rich despite it, it gives hope to so many who hate school that they too can be rich like them. And there are men out there who support them.
I just loathe magat stupidity to tbe core of my existence. Schools should be community hubs that integrate kids and their families into a community and encourage everyone to have excellent social skills and social connections in their community. The magat determination to destroy education isn’t just to make Americans stupid and to make sure they don’t understand how the government and economy should work. It is also about destroying communities and social skills/networks. Isolated people are more prone to believe Q/Twitter conspiracies and not be grounded in reality. The magats want kids homeschooled/private fundamentalist schooled to remove minimum educational standards, to indoctrinate kids into fundamentalism, to make them stupid by under educating them, to fund the rich controlling the churches with tax payer money and to deliberately make kids easier prey for pedophiles using the history of the Catholic church as a model. F#ck this stupid entitled talentless c#nt.
Kourtney’s most used word is, like, “like.” Those women are so articulate & intelligent! /S
I know one person who homeschooled her kid for the right reasons: her daughter had a serious long term illness as a child and would have missed so much school if she hadn’t been homeschooled. This woman also has her degree in teaching. She had her daughter involved with community theater so she had a social life and didn’t become too shy.
And one who does it for the wrong reasons: fundamentalist Christian Libertarian who thinks school buses were evil, doesn’t want her kids learning about government because “Jesus is King” and didn’t want to get her kids vaxxed because “with freedom comes risk.” She does not have a teaching degree. Her poor kids have no idea how to act in social situations.
So basically, she’s saying “Garble, garble, garble, homeschool, garble, garble, Tylenol.”
I like the fact that she now thinks she’s a “nurse” 😂
No, you’re just being a parent.
I can’t tell from this what she actually thinks – she’s almost completely incoherent.
“Almost” completely? You are being too kind.
I’m pretty sure she was referring to breastfeeding her infant child more when it’s sick. I don’t believe she meant Nurse as in Nurse Ratchet….
@Robert Wright – I’m not sure what the child having a fever and Tylenol have to do with breastfeeding a baby, but everything else she’s said is so disjointed that who knows?
Well… why *would* you go to school when you can just get your sister to do a sex tape with a NFL player and then and ride her coattails for the rest of your life? Indeed.
Kim made the tape with Ray J, Brandy’s brother. Not with Reggie Bush. But yeah – none of them would be where they are if Kim hadn’t copied her boss Paris Hilton in how to get very famous very quickly.
That was my first thought too, LOL. Who needs an education and socialization, when you can just coast by on your sister’s sex tape.
Hasn’t the Kardashians’ stranglehold on popular culture finally come to an end? I wish they’d all just eff off.
The faster these entitled, untalented, delusional succubi, fade from the culture, the better for humanity on a whole. I really wish they were reported on less here. They need to go away.
For many, many years now they have shown their disdain for education to the viewing public.
Do I think the Kardashians are thinking critically about this, no. But schools as they’re currently structured really do need an update. IMO. I had kids who struggled in the traditional school environment and when that is one’s experience the shortcomings of current systems can become pretty intense. And FWIW my mom has a PhD in early childhood dev and has been a teacher her entire career (everything from Kindergarten to College) so I grew up with that expertise shaping my world view.
My point was just that by the way they speak and act, they are certainly intellectually challenged and obviously never made serious education a priority.
The whole lot of them must share one brain cell and it wasn’t Kourtney’s turn for it when she gave this interview. School isn’t just reading, writing and arithmetic, it’s learning valuable social skills, ethics, curiosity about the world, self-confidence, etc. The only thing they’ve learned is what kind of plastic surgery to get and shameless self-promotion.
While getting my bachelors degree in languages, I also did the requirements for a teaching license in social studies, which includes history, French, Spanish, and German. I taught high school while getting a masters in government and a juris doctorate in night programs.
I WOULD NEVER HOME SCHOOL. If I had any, I would want my children to learn far beyond what I could teach them in the areas of study I left in high school or the areas I didn’t study at all in high school. As a former teacher, I know that different students respond to different teaching styles in different subjects. They also respond and need exposure to different personalities. And so much more. They need exposure to other kids, other views, other cultures, other worlds, and they need to learn to some extent how to fend for themselves and that they can fend for themselves, which they won’t learn at home. I currently live in one of the five most diverse school districts in the USA. Over 100 different languages are spoken in the homes of the kids who attend our high school. Why would I deprive my children of experiencing that?
I also know that it is easy to hide child abuse in a home school situation.
And they can learn from Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian what type of people to avoid.
An excellent point. I’d add that, in the years since I “finished” my education, quite a lot of what I was taught has turned out to be wrong. First, we had nine planets in the solar system, then we had eight, and now it turns out we might have nine again. We thought we knew how the body worked, how the brain worked, that the appendix was useless.
Imagine that you finish schooling at 18 or 21 and then you live another 60, 70, 80 years relying on the education of over half a century ago. As it is, adults need to continue their education or they’ll be lost. Why handicap children at the outset?
Socialization is SO important. It’s what makes a … society.
They are garbage. Their kids will be as rich as kings and contribute NOTHING to society or the world. My kids are kind, generous, work hard and will have a positive impact. They may never be known or famous but what they leave and their impact will be far greater than the banal existence of these pathetic, vapid, stupid, trash women and their aimless, brainless spawn.
Look, I don’t have a problem if you decide to home school your kid even though I was not homeschooled and my kids are in public schools. But everybody in the world can’t just stay home with their kids to homeschool them they have those resources and time or even the capability to teach their kid. Check your privilege at the door that’s not reality.
I know a few situations where I totally understood why someone might choose a homeschool option. In one case a family’s daughter was about to flunk out of school because of absenteeism -her depression anxiety made her unable to get out of bed. They put her in the state run virtual School monitored by her mother who was a stay-at-home mom and she thrived because she could do three assignments in a morning and then go get a job where she saw people. That’s kind of situation where it really works.
I briefly thought about it for my kids because they weren’t being challenged in school and we’re spending 15 minutes a day on assignments in the next 45 just reading because the teacher was dealing with other kids but they actually told me they didn’t want to be homeschooled because they like being around their friends in school. So I do think the socialization aspect is something to consider.
I was surprised too to learn that a lot of the really elite sports kids are homeschooled as of like middle school so that they can spend most of the day in the gym.
These are MAGA talking points. These trash humans are, once again, showing us exactly who they are
Must be nice to have f-you money so that you don’t have to worry about your children being able to support themselves.
I’d never presume to have the intelligence, tools and skills needed to teach anyone, least of all my children. People go to uni to be able to do it. I’d be doing my children a disservice by homeschooling them LOL
Two dumb bitches is right. What do they know? What kind of an education did they get? I can’t even believe either of them teach their kids at home. At most, they’ve hired tutors for them, like rich people used to do. That’s better than the alternative: only watching their families making money by exposing their entire lives to the media.
That’s the thing, I think. When they say ‘homeschool’ they mean they’re paying someone else (possibly actually qualified to teach) tutoring their kids individually. They don’t mean they’re actually doing anything themselves. There definitely is an element of miscommunication there because when they say homeschool they mean we’re hella rich and just pay people to do shit for us, but others hear oh, they’re doing it themselves.
Geezus, we are doomed if this the attitude towards knowledge.
This is the same BS my MAGA relatives fling around as they subject theirs poor kids to an insane homeschooling world.
This makes me rage. These idiots can’t spin a sentence without using “Like” ten times, live such completely entitled lives even before the reality show, and to disparage people who go to school and are NORMAL is infuriating.
My SIL homeschooled her four kids because evolution would destroy them or some such reason. We used to go by and visit around 10:00 am, most times they were all still sleeping but not once did we ever catch them studying. The oldest finally demanded they go to school, Christian of course.
Homeschooling can be done incredibly well, but it’s a full time job.
My tolerance for stupidity is waning as I get older and more people embrace it.
‘Why do kids f–king go to school?’
So they can form full sentences that make sense and have meaningful conversations with other people, something you two clearly cannot do. Nearly had an aneurysm trying to decipher what they were both saying., which boils down to: we’re dumb and everybody else should be too.
They are missing a key point – home schooling means that a parent, usually mother, is required to be at home and is not in the workforce. School provides education, but there is also a childcare component, that is necessary for parents to work.
From their conversation, it’s obvious they are blind to the privilege they have. They would have to grow, mentally, to understand why parents NEED to send kids to schools.
“What is the point of school”, well, clearly it’s important in order to avoid this kind of statement. Although I’m not surprised to hear somebody from this family saying stupid stuff like that.
What is the point of billionaires? I think that’s truly an outdated concept. Or “dated.”
We at least got museums and universities in the last gilded age. This new one sucks. They want us dumb and sick and silent.
Our school year following the agrarian calendar should have been changed decades ago. But that means -*more* school, more funding, and these idiots actually paying their taxes. Greedy dumb assholes. School is amazing and essential to a functioning democracy. Which they don’t want, of course.
Well of course a rich moron like her wouldn’t understand the value of getting a good education. Her and her useless family don’t have to work for a living.
Good luck to her children.