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And if some parents didn't?If some parents were not so lazy or so entrenched in making a buck that would be a great solution. I love some of our local Amish and Mennonites who teach their children in their own schools. Their children I believe are much better adjusted and by far have better manners and better health overall.Just get rid of the schools and go to virtual Ed. Think of all the carbon not burned by school buses, parents running back and forth ....buildings.....we might be able to save the planet and improve education...parents wouldn't be locked into whatever crap school board wanted to foust on little Johnny.
Who cares? Either the kids would make it up when they got older and take care of themselves, or they would fill a niche in the employment sector.
We would finally have folks to fill all those positions that the illegal immigrants used to once fill. . . .
You know, picking in the fields, processing in the meat plants, doing the yard work and construction jobs, etc.
The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher
Public School Is a 12-Year Jail Sentence - LewRockwell LewRockwell.com
". . .It only takes about 50 contact hours to transmit basic literacy and math skills well enough that kids can be self-teachers from then on. The cry for "basic skills" practice is a smokescreen behind which schools pre-empt the time of children for twelve years and teach them the six lessons I’ve just taught you.
We’ve had a society increasingly under central control in the United States since just before the Civil War: the lives we lead, the clothes we wear, the food we eat, and the green highway signs we drive by from coast to coast are the products of this central control. So, too, I think, are the epidemics of drugs, suicide, divorce, violence, cruelty, and the hardening of class into caste in the U.S., products of the dehumanization of our lives, the lessening of individual and family importance that central control imposes.
Without a fully active role in community life you cannot develop into a complete human being. Aristotle taught that. Surely he was right; look around you or look in the mirror: that is the demonstration.
"School" is an essential support system for a vision of social engineering that condemns most people to be subordinate stones in a pyramid that narrows to a control point as it ascends. "School" is an artifice which makes such a pyramidal social order seem inevitable (although such a premise is a fundamental betrayal of the American Revolution). In colonial days and through the period of the early Republic we had no schools to speak of. And yet the promise of democracy was beginning to be realized. We turned our backs on this promise by bringing to life the ancient dream of Egypt: compulsory training in subordination for everybody. Compulsory schooling was the secret Plato reluctantly transmitted in the Republic when he laid down the plans for total state control of human life. . . ."