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The real problem with school is not that it is a monopoly, controlled by the unions, or funded by a gang of violent thugs.
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On the contrary, the whole concept of a government funded and run system of public education comes to us from pre-WW1 Germany where the purpose was to train young men to be good soldiers (i.e., cannon fodder). I remember some specific points from somewhere about: discipline; answering to bells; and separation from their families. In the USA, it was championed by avowed socialists who saw it as a way of getting the country to adopt socialism.
It worked.
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The idea that most kids need anything more than the basic skills of reading, writing, and dealing with money is crazy, and even these skills are not best taught by schools Students should be free to learn what they want to learn, based on the opportunities and responsibilities which their parents provide.
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Agreed. But where do they learn all the skills prized by the state like conformity and obedience to the enlightened? Where do they learn contempt for their parent’s religious beliefs? When do they learn the state’s religion — relativistic secular humanism? Where do they learn violence? Where do they learn that they are just powerless cogs?
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I wish I had been taught: political principles, Libertarianism, non-violence, practical economics (financial independence), the Bible (not religion), the science of health (not medicine or biology), committed relationships (not sex-education), gardening, solar power, biodiesel, building, computer programming, practical design (not art), etc.
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I’d throw in: Individual self-reliance, Independent inter-dependence, and the teaching of the meme’s: Christ, Washington, Jefferson, Gandhi, Churchill, Mother Teresa, and perhaps Harry Browne.
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2. The second is that kids are entitled to an education.
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There is no “right” to an education. And there is certainly no “right” that makes me pay for it.
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Want to deregulate the schools? Let students choose teachers, and teachers compete for students. The one thing that would do the most good for education, is to make the whole thing voluntary. Make no student attend any class they didn’t want to attend, and make no teacher teach any student that they didn’t want to teach.
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Repeal mandatory attendance laws.
I wrote a transition plan that says it would take us 40 years to kill the gubamint’s skools.
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If a teacher didn’t have any students, they wouldn’t get paid.
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Sounds right to me.
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