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bolt. -> RE: Confused (11/1/2009 4:00:13 PM)
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Why is it that people deliberately want our children to not receive a good education? People all over the country "home school" and people all over the country are against it, to the point of legally fighting it. WHY is it so important to them for children in the U.S.A. to get a BAD education? Personally, I believe that it is all about indoctrination of our children. Spoiled, Selfish, Liberal, Gay, abortion, socialist, evolutionist, and agenda is being forced on the children. When the time comes for them to vote, we all know what side they will be on.
I doubt you will ever be able to interact in an understanding and mature way with these neighbours, friends and family members... if that's the best way you can come up with to characterize their intent. It's just silly to think people want those things for those reasons. They may be under misinformation, but thinking of them the way you described just builds walls between you.
Nobody "deliberately wants our children to not receive a good education" they simply believe that a pretty poor school is better than what an average parent can provide on their own steam... And that it's probably far better than what they think of as 'some religious nuts' and other odd cases are likely to be teaching their kids -- things that they think are out of line with common sense and ordinary educational standards. (Much the way we would think of someone who was homeschooling in order to be able to freely teach about astronomy where the sun travels around the earth.)
As to "WHY is it so important to them for children in the U.S.A. to get a BAD education" -- not every public education is bad, and not every homeschool experience is good. You think a dedicated homeschool environment is most-often good. They think an average public school is most-often good. They also think that at least there is some accountability if public education is going poorly, but in homeschooling, they see vast potential for damage that nobody notices. There's no malice in that. They are not out to get anybody or hurt anybody. They just think of public education as a pretty good thing, in an overall sense...
Those who are actively against it see it as a dangerous way to isolate the child rearing process from any kind of community oversight which is designed to stick up for children while they are helpless and impressionable. For some, it might have to do with their ideas about religion in general being detrimental to human society. That's why it would seem to them to be a good thing to prevent it from being instilled. (Much the way we would consider it a good thing to prevent racism or gender-based repression from being instilled.)
It may well be that people in government or the various interests you listed are interested in public education as a means of indoctrination. In fact, that's actually probably true, as far as it applies to politicians, lobbyists and the like... but it's probably not true about your friends, neighbours and family members. Your friends, family members and neighbours mean well. They don't understand the issue, but they think they do, and they have their own ideas about what is good and bad on either side. They are in favour of what you think of as bad, but that doesn't mean that they think of it as bad too, and want it anyways. They want it because they think of it as good.
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