[ale] schooling -- WAY, WAY, WAY OT now!!!

[Geoffrey]

Charles Marcus wrote:

> Home-schooled children *consistently* score higher on all of the government
> tests, and consistently win national spelling bees, etc.  

This is utter bullshit and propaganda.  Many home school 'systems' 
intentionally take the 'government tests'  at a later date then the 
public school systems, hence the comparison is apples to oranges, or 
rather, apple blossoms to apples.

I'd be glad to see your documentation proving otherwise.  I've had a 
number of discussions with home school folks and what I've said has 
applied in all cases.  Home schooling is not the answer to all.  They 
work for many folks, but not all.

> And I guarantee you,
> a child who is home-schooled costs the mother/father paying for it *much* less
> than they would if they had gone to the public fool system.

Ah, are you considering the lost in income by the home school 'teacher' 
as well?  My biggest problem regarding home schooling is that there are 
no requirements whatsoever.  You can home school your child and they can 
sit in front of the TV all day.

> 
> 
>>I would gladly suffer a tripling of my property taxes
>>if it was used to hire people who had a college degree
>>in something other than education to replace those who
>>took the easy route and majored in education.
>>
> 
> Since I am in complete agreement with the supreme Court of the United States,
> and believe that the taking from one to give to another is nonetheless
> *theft*, regardless if it is called 'taxation', I cannot disagree with this
> more.

Ah, then how would you propose a solution?  Forget taxes, forget medical 
insurance, car insurance...

> 
> The only people who should have to pay for schools/teachers should be the
> people who use them.  Anything else is communistic in nature (one of the ten
> planks of communism is *mandatory*, free, public education (controlled by the
> government) for all children.  Hmmm, sounds suspiciously like what we have
> now, with the exception that we still have private schools and are still
> 'allowed' to home-school our children, as if the government had the powe to
> *deny* this Right.

Again, the same should apply to hospitals, roads, police and fire services?


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