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Can you get anymore homeschool than swing dance? w/@flierbrown

June 08, 2025 / 01:18

This episode covers swing dancing, ballroom dancing, and the experience of being homeschooled while participating in traditional school activities. The conversation includes personal anecdotes about school dances, partnering with a Christian school for prom, and the community involvement in organizing events.

The guest shares their experience of taking swing dance classes at age 12, highlighting the enjoyment and fun of learning these dances. They mention leading dance activities during high school and teaching for a couple of years.

There is a discussion about the differences and similarities between homeschooled and public-schooled experiences, particularly in relation to social events like dances and field trips.

TLDR

A guest shares their homeschooled experience with swing and ballroom dancing and school events.

Episode

1:18
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dances and sports together and all that kind of stuff. But wait, you did dances?
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Yeah. Yeah. So, we had uh swing. I love that for you. Yeah. No, it was so much fun. When I was 12 years old, my mom
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stuck me in a swing dance class and so I learned swing dance and ballroom, which
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again, very homeschooled coded weirdness, right? But like, but it was so much fun and did that all through
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high school. Did that some of college as well. like I was the guy if you talk to
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my friends from growing up that I was the guy who really eventually took over and led the charge of that whole thing
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taught for a couple years. I love that. It was a lot of fun. It was really cool and and we had a community that was
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willing to like put on school dances. So, we kind of had some of these normal things. Um we did school dances. We
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partnered with a a Christian school and did prom. We had yearbook like we had a lot of the kind of traditional school
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things field trips all that kind of stuff nice existed and so it so it's it's different when we talk to some when
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I talk to somebody who was public schooled but at the same time there's very much a similarity between like well
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yeah we also did that it just looked a little different you know but it was but it was the same you

Episode Highlights

  • Swing Dance Memories
    Reflecting on the joy of swing dance classes from childhood.
    “I learned swing dance and ballroom, which again, very homeschooled coded weirdness.”
    @ 00m 16s
    June 08, 2025
  • Community and School Dances
    Discussing the community involvement in school dances and proms.
    “We had a community that was willing to like put on school dances.”
    @ 00m 40s
    June 08, 2025

Episode Quotes

  • It was so much fun and did that all through high school.
    Can you get anymore homeschool than swing dance? w/@flierbrown
  • I was the guy who really eventually took over and led the charge.
    Can you get anymore homeschool than swing dance? w/@flierbrown
  • We had a community that was willing to like put on school dances.
    Can you get anymore homeschool than swing dance? w/@flierbrown

Key Moments

  • Swing Dance Class00:13
  • Community Support00:40
  • School Dances00:48