Billie Eilish is in big trouble with fans online after they re-discovered some of her old controversial comments!
For those who don’t know, the singer was homeschooled alongside her older brother Finneas by their mother, Maggie Baird. She has long applauded their upbringing, saying it gave them the freedom to learn and pursue music rather than focus on a traditional curriculum.
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Not everyone can have that experience, though, which Billie failed to acknowledge when she slammed parents who send their children to school as “lazy as f**k” in an interview for Pitchfork’s Over/Under series in 2019! Oof! Her comments resurfaced this week, and fans are now PISSED! But what did she fully say? Billie shared that she never went to school:
“I’ve never been to school. I grew up homeschooled, stayed homeschooled, never was not homeschooled. The thing is, I still learned everything, you know? But I learned it in life. I learned how to do math by cooking with my mom and seeing how many halves are gonna make this amount… If we double this recipe, how many more do we have to put in this batch right here? So, that’s how I learned math, and then I learned how to build s**t from my dad.”
The Birds of a Feather artist then bashed parents for going the conventional schooling route:
“I mean, there’s a lot of ways to do it. I think some people do it the wrong way, which just makes your life horrible and miserable and boring. And that’s mainly because parents are lazy as f**k – that’s why they send their kids to school in the first place: ‘I don’t want to teach you, b**ch.’”
Yikes… Watch the interview (below):
When a clip of the interview started circulating again, many stormed the comments to accuse Billie of unfairly judging parents. Others pointed out that many families don’t have the resources or ability to homeschool their kids like her parents. Overall, social media users thought she had a very “privileged” take:
“that’s such a privileged thing to say”
“our parents had to go to work, billie.”
“Maybe the parents are busy working to provide for their kids. That’s the opposite of lazy”
“calling it lazy parenting to send your kid to school is insane lmao”
“Rich kid who never went to real school calling working parents lazy for using the system that actually exists. Tone deaf and immature as hell.”
“parents are lazy asf because they want you to be educated by people who are specifically trained for it…#ok”
“Sooo if parents are supposed to teach their homeschooled kids everything, when do they have time to go to work and provide for the household? This only works if you’re highly privileged already”
“outdated education models should change but ‘parents send kids to school because they are lazy’ is ignorant af [and] diminishing the role of educators and acting like anyone can do that.”
However, others thought Billie had a point! They just didn’t agree with the way she said it!
“Maybe y’all don’t like her delivery but a lot of parents used public school to raise their kids and not just educate them on world affairs and that’s why we have the problems we do now.”
“everyone’s already said dumb s**t when they were underage the difference is that they didn’t have a camera pointed at you”
“Lowkey get her point. She just ain’t say it right.”
“this was years ago so she might have changed her perspective (hopefully).”
Let’s hope! At this time, Billie hasn’t addressed her resurfaced comments. What are YOUR thoughts on the controversy, Perezcious readers? Sound OFF (below)!
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