What's worse a parent who fails to home school his child or a Public school system that fails a community?

[Forward]

On the contrary, consider this: corruption, incompetence, and subversion reach only as far as their mandate. A bad homeschooling parent fails his child. A bad private school fails many children. A bad public school system fails an entire community. And whereas an unskilled parent has the option of seeking help in educating his child, and parents unhappy with a failing private school may take their money elsewhere, a failed public system gives parents little recourse; corruption at the top of the public pyramid quickly insinuates itself throughout the system. A few Marxist-progressives, feeding on the naiveté or stupidity of a few administrators and legislators, can quickly spread their dye through the whole pool, and this dye, so universalized, becomes the color of the community for generations. (Needless to say, that last sentence summarizes the past -- and, in my view, final -- hundred years of modern civilization.) If anything breeds charlatans, incompetents, and subversives, it is the power to compel "standardization."

As I have said before, if Barack Obama wishes to send his children to Bill and Bernardine's house, he is free to do so. The problem is that in a public education system, you are not free not to do so with your children.


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[vrzz]

Your silly avatar dismisses any chance you might have had of sane people taking you serious, nut job.

[Sadcat]

I don't understand why any of this is an issue. Obviously both kinds of failure are failures. Obviously neither is preferable, and neither is necessary. It's not like we have to choose one or the other. What's the point?

This is like asking, "Which is worse--a bad haircut or a bad manicure?" Obviously we would like them both to be good.

[Alan Turing]

Choices, choices. I pick the door on the left. Wait, no the right door. No! The door in the middle.

Are there any other doors?

[BASH]

The fact is, in our country it is nearly impossible for most families to make it on one salary. If you want more people to homeschool.....if you are trying to make "the case against public school".....you will also need to make the case for higher salaries for workers, so that one parent can afford to stay home or pay for private schooling.

[Star]

The most basic social group in any society is the family. A failure there is a failure that can wipe out civilization.

PS, Where the hell do you get off saying corruption, incompetence and subversion is part of a public school. No one can get away with that.

I'll bet you have done nothing in education but think you know everything because you listened to Rush for an hour on the subject.

Talk about incompetence!

[b]

Home Schooling is banned where I live and we have some of the worse public schools on earth.

[Jersey Guy]

They are Equal, however, some of the Teachers are also parents, yet, they follow the dictates of the Union Bosses!

Proud Vet

[serenaz]

The children of America are our greatest asset ... they will be the leaders, economists, engineers, scientists, doctors, soldiers, artists and artisans of tomorrow ... a proper well funded public education system is a better investment for the future of our country than investing in trillions of dollars in war and weaponry ... BTW no other first world country supports home schooling as a viable choice ... it's a failure at every level ... !

[tehabwa]

There's nothing at all wrong with a parent who doesn't home school his or her child.

What people who have a brain realize is that we should IMPROVE public schools. The problem with our public schools is NOT corruption, but a misunderstanding of what education IS and how to achieve it.

Marxism isn't taught in US schools.

LOL, in YOUR opinion? Given that everything you say is a big lie, no person who has any brain CARES what your view is.