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Re: Public School
Posted By: Sam, on host 206.152.189.219
Date: Tuesday, November 14, 2000, at 12:33:36
In Reply To: Re: Public School posted by MarkN on Tuesday, November 14, 2000, at 12:04:58:

None of this has anything to do with public schools, so far as I can tell. California wants to ban homeschooling, a move you see as wrong, and so you adopt the position "keep the government out of schooling."

This is insidious. Your argument about what the government's rightful place is (which is actually somewhat, but not quite, close to mine) can only be said to apply to the realm of education if you accept the OBVIOUSLY incorrect premises that (1) the education of an individual does not have a profound effect on society at large, (2) that parents will always have the ability to choose the best (or even ANY) method of education for their children, (3) that it's not an injustice for children to be deprived of an education by parents who are irresponsible about seeing to it that they get one.

I'm sure if I kept thinking, I could go on. And on. The extremism with which you carry tenets even I feel I hold to extremes is dangerous: the making of a self-destructive country.

You don't solve the problem with public schools by throwing them out. You don't solve the problem of a particular instance of state government mishandling education by denying them any handling of education. Your solution to everything seems to be to throw it out if it's not working cleanly the first time. If education is not perfect, let no one learn anything at all? I think you need to sit down and think about what you've been proposing a little more.

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