Posted on 06/25/2010 11:36:31 AM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
Pinging you to post 30.
All funded by your tax dollars (and mine).
It doesn't matter whether you send your children to the public schools—you and I are paying for the whole mess.
Everyone, even the most ardent home-schooler, has an interest in seeing that the public schools are cleaned up. Otherwise, we will all suffer from the general dumbing-down of society.
Yes, my friend. You are entirely correct.
Eliminate socialized schooling and return to a free market capitalist system. Government schools have no place in a free society.
http://www.freedomofeducation.net/
http://www.schoolandstate.org/home.htm
The arguments for socialized schooling are the same as the arguments for socialized medicine, socialized housing, etc. They are based on a distrust of the free market and capitalism.
People who would never willingly move into a public housing project will put their kids in a public school. They are conditioned to accept socialized schooling. People who have spent 6 or 7 generations in government housing projects are conditioned to accept socialized housing.
Socialized schooling has no place in a free society.
I’ve homeschooled for 24 years. My youngest has one more year of high school. I wouldn’t have missed it for anything. We had such a wonderful time together. You are free to travel, free to study whatever you think is important. I wouldn’t want my dog to have to attend school all day.
As important as everything you mentioned is the lesson you are teaching by example; taking responsibility for your one wants and needs.
People using the socialized schools are having their lifestyles subsidized by others. The example they are setting is that it is OK to feed at the public trough.
So the little one room schoolhouses of the past were just socilalist training facilities?
If you believe that, your teachers were morons.
The one room school was as much socialized schooling as the three-story city school. The education was undoubtedly more in keeping with community standards but the example parents gave the children was the same; socialism is OK.
People who use the government schools of any size are doing the same thing people who move into government housing projects. They are abdicating personal responsibility They are having their lifestyles subsidized by others.
It is hard to break the cycle of dependency whether it is dependency on government schools or on government housing, or on government medicine. Also, as with all socialized industries, the quality of the product never improves over time. The quality of the product declines because there is no competition. There is no incentive to maintain quality.
Socialized schooling was the first target of the progressives because it plants the seed in children’s minds that socialism is a proper means for supplying their wants. We must do away with socialized schooling and return to free market, capitalist schooling.
Apparently Ben Franklin was a socialist too.
You clowns rewrite history just as surely and honestly as the left does it.
Ben Franklin didn’t start a government college. He started a free market college, the University of Pennsylvania.
You have no way of refuting my facts so rather than hold a rational discussion all you can do is name-call.
You are the product of socialized schools, aren’t you?
Who said anything about college?
Franklin set up a whole series of community schools.
When did he do that? Were they government schools?
Jefferson advocated socialized schooling but couldn’t get the majority of Virginians to buy into it.
Socialism doesn’t work. Socialized schooling should be replaced with capitalist schooling.
Thanks for all these comments. (#42 and #43 are my own starting point.)
Perhaps I’m unrealistic about what is possible; but I’m motivated by the thought that we have to try.
Why should we allow all those hacks and quacks in the Education Establishment to have so much influence?
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