Where in the heck do you hallucinate that I said any such thing?
then I advise you to visit the Homeschool Legal Defense Association website. There you will find page upon page of court recorded incidents of government school bullying.
I don't doubt that at all.
Also.,.government school expenses are a significant portion of any business or home's property tax.
I strongly support voucher systems.
Just try refusing to pay the government school portion of that tax and watch what happens.
You'll get in deep legal trouble, like other "tax protestors". If you don't like your taxes, take it up with your representative in the legislature. If not enough other people agree with you and you can't get the tax law changes you want, either move to somewhere else, or suck it up. That's how representative democracies work. Not everyone gets everything they want all the time. Most people are adult enough to learn to live with it, while working to change enough people's minds to get a different vote outcome next time. But you don't get to throw a tantrum and just refuse to pay your taxes.
This are not strawman arguments.
I didn't say they were. What I *did* say was a straw man argument was the false accusation that anyone wants to teach evolution at the point of a gun. There are plenty of alternatives if you don't like your local public school -- move, send the kids to a private school, homeschool without making waves, get elected to the school board, start a grassroots effort for change, etc.
Thoughtful people will see the truth.
...and other kinds of people will get hysterical about science being taught in science classes.
Government school indoctrination is driven through police threat. That includes evolution and ID.
Feel free to send your kids to a private school, or any of many other alternatives. No one's stopping you, and no one's going to sic the police on you for it if you do it without being a loon about it.
Feel free to send your kids to a private school, or any of many other alternatives. No one's stopping you, and no one's going to sic the police on you for it if you do it without being a loon about it. ( Ichneumon)
Ichneumon,
The government has a price-fixed monopoly that is giving a product ( education) away for free. This creates a very hostile business environment for the creation of private schools.
Also...since the government extracts from the citizen the cost of running these schools by way of taxes, this also depletes the financial resources of the parent, thus making paying for private school or homeschool or moving less feasible.
When the parent finds private schools scarce and exclusive, and they are financially drained through taxes for government schools, the government then has the audacity to threaten police, court, and foster care action if the parent refuses to send their child to the government school.
Only a government could devise a system so fiendishly evil!
Once in the government school the child will be forced to sit through evolution or ID ( who ever is the biggest bully in the county) and will reap the political, cultural, and religious consequences of this "teaching".
You are correct. No one is going to "sic" police on anyone who is fortunate enough to find and be able to pay for a private school. The Government school educrats WILL send out police to those parents who can not find or afford private or homes schooling and will NOT send their child to the government school indoctrination camp.