That's all fine, but there has to be adult remedial civics education somewhere in the mix, to compensate for the lack of such education in the formative years.
Break the government school monopoly on team sports.
I suppose your point there is that kids who are interested in playing team sports are forced to go to public schools to do so. Not generally true. Many, if not most, private and parochial schools have field sports teams as well, though opportunities for sports aren't generally as good. This isn't exactly that big of an issue.
I surely agree! Any suggestions on how to bring about this "remedial" adult civic education?
This isn't exactly that big of an issue.
I didn't think it was much of an issue either until I moved to a small town. Wow! The government school **is** the community. Half the town works directly for the school in some capacity. The other half benefit indirectly. Even my dentist and his five employees are very dependent patents with dental insurance who work for the schools.
The "rah rah" around sports in incredible. Most of our local paper's news involves team sports. Gee! last week the cheer leading team won first place in some competition. There is absolutely no opportunity in the entire county for team sports except through the government schools.
Every child who participates in baseball, football, basketball, softball, field hockey, lacrosse, cheer leading, marching band, jazz team, color guard, orchestra, theater, chorus, wrestling, ( and I have likely missed a few) has parents and other relatives who are gung ho supporters of the government schools.
Every one of the above activities should be moved to the parks and recreation or completely privatized.