Perhaps you have a point, but I'm thinking of a poor, irresponsible single mother of four who wouldn't pay for schooling for her kids. The kids don't deserve to have no options. The answer can't be "fuck them."
If you're already doing that, you're already either keeping your kids out of school to get you welfare money, or they are going to a ghetto school where they are going to be recruited into a gang, which you don't give a shit about either, and you're probably hoping they get shot by a cop so you can get a payday.
I'm saying: those kids are already fucked, and they'd be better off working a job, rather than going to a public school.
They can have a basic education through private mechanisms including tutors. Kids don't need to be in a government sponsored indoctrination center being taught anything but math and literacy, for 8 hours a day, for 12 years.
Poor and impoverished kids would do just fine with half that time, actually reading.
Fuck, I can tell you most of my literacy comes from reading Calvin and Hobbes at dinner.
I don't disagree with the state of education, but I can't get behind eliminating public schools. Too many people would be left behind. That would lead to even more ignorance in the masses, which is what a totalitarian state would want.
Perhaps you have a point, but I'm thinking of a poor, irresponsible single mother of four who wouldn't pay for schooling for her kids. The kids don't deserve to have no options. The answer can't be "fuck them."
If you're already doing that, you're already either keeping your kids out of school to get you welfare money, or they are going to a ghetto school where they are going to be recruited into a gang, which you don't give a shit about either, and you're probably hoping they get shot by a cop so you can get a payday.
I'm saying: those kids are already fucked, and they'd be better off working a job, rather than going to a public school.
It's too callous. They deserve to have basic education.
They can have a basic education through private mechanisms including tutors. Kids don't need to be in a government sponsored indoctrination center being taught anything but math and literacy, for 8 hours a day, for 12 years.
Poor and impoverished kids would do just fine with half that time, actually reading.
Fuck, I can tell you most of my literacy comes from reading Calvin and Hobbes at dinner.
I don't disagree with the state of education, but I can't get behind eliminating public schools. Too many people would be left behind. That would lead to even more ignorance in the masses, which is what a totalitarian state would want.