Posted on 07/16/2013 4:46:36 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The idea of forcing children to attend school is outdated and should be scrapped in favor of a system that encourages learning by choice, state Sen. Aaron Osmond said in calling for an end to compulsory education in Utah.
“Some parents act as if the responsibility to educate, and even care for their child, is primarily the responsibility of the public school system,” the South Jordan Republican first wrote on a state Senate blog on Friday. …
Osmond said that in the current state of public education, teachers do not receive meaningful support from parents, while at the same time parents become frustrated that schools are not able to meet the individual needs of their children. …
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means the kids would be better off anywhere other than the government schools. They might learn less, but of what they did learn, less would be leftist Howard Zinn garbage.
Literacy was higher before compulsory attendance laws than it is now. Compulsory attendance was never (since Bismarck) about education, but about control.
Good idea. Hope this succeeds.
In the old days, they called this "Freedom."
nah- just end publik skoolz
You forgot one other “purpose”....Indoctrination
The Libertarian ping list might be interested in this.
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