This thread is ridiculous . Yes, our public schools are far from perfect and have their problems, but the conservative alternative is infinitely worse and would lead to total chaos in America .
Saying it doesn't make it so.
Complete privatization of education sounds like a good idea, but it is totally unrealistic for reasons which are too long to explain here .
For " for reasons which are too long to explain here" read, "I have no idea what the hell I'm talking about and can't even think of anything good to make up off the top of my head".
Home schooling is also very problematic, because too many home schooling parents are extremely conservative Christians who do a woefully inadequate job and also teach their kids that the world is only 6,000 years old, created in one week , Adam & Eve, a garden of Eden and a talking snake actually existed , dinosaurs existed at the same time as humans, Noah and his ark actually existed , etc and that God made Eve out of Adams rib .
Notice the implication here!
Hom thinks he knows what good for your kid better than you do and doesn't believe that you have the right to make such decisions. The state is the wiser, it should raise your kids the way it sees fit.
DANGEROUS!!!
Freedom cannot exist where such thinking is in the majority.
They teach their kids to be woefully ignorant of science , to be intolerant of anyone who does not share their religious and political beliefs, and to be hostile to gay people ,among other things which will handicap them for life .
This is all just a straight up, intentional lie. Hom near this was not true when he typed it.
True, not ALL parents who home school their kids are like this, but too many ARE .
Too many? By what standard?
Who gets to decide, you?
Who gets to decide what my children aught to be taught and what they shouldn't and on what basis?
Public schools don't "indoctrinate "kids to be atheists ,Marxists and communists and to hate Christians and Christianity , nor do they
try to "make kids gay ".
Niave at best. But I've never heard anyone even accuse the public school system of trying to make kids gay. That wouldn't work anyway. The way you make a kid potentially gay is to molest him between the ages of 5 and 8 years old and even that doesn't work most of the time.
But too many home schooling parents DO indoctrinate and brainwash their kids with what I described earlier in this post .
And you would stop them by what right? By what standard do you decide what is and is not considered indoctrination? Whether they are teaching things you agree with? Who made you the "indoctrination czar"?
Kids need to learn about math, science, history, geography ,English
learn foreign languages , and to be exposed to music and the arts .
No one disagrees with this. This thread is not advocating the lack of education. Quite the contrary. The government sucks at educating people. Private schools that sucked as bad as the government schools current do, would go out of business almost immediately.
Market forces would cause those private organizations that are good at educating kids to grow, getting more and more students eventually growing to the point the the economies of scale cause the expense of educating kids gets a lot cheaper per child, eventually causing even the poor to afford what at one time was only available to the rich and connected. Under a free market system, nearly every child would have access to the best and most innovative and effective teaching techniques. Techniques which there's hardly any incentive for anyone to come up with today.
It's just like everything else in the free market. Competition drives innovation and advancement including ways to distribute the service in more efficient ways causing prices to come down.
As it is today, there are no market forces hardly at all. The result is an entrenched, bureaucratic teachers union that is WAY more interested in their political influence than they are in teaching math, science, history and geography.
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