I agree, and the purpose of my many posts is to persuade Freepers that this must change. Compulsory socialist K-12 schooling is a violation of their fundamental First Amendment Rights as a human and freedom of conscience. Another purpose is to warn them of the danger socialist schooling is a threat to our very existence as a free nation.
As for me, personally, I am done with socialist school teachers. No more! I will not have these people as friends and I now work to keep them out of my life as much as reasonably possible. I will not have a person for a friend who **willingly** takes a job that crushes First Amendment human rights and freedom of conscience. I will not have for a friend someone who knowingly or unknowingly is destroying our nation and undermining the faith of the nation's children.
As a military retiree with quite a few years of service, I am aware that the draft has not been around for some time.
Comparing teaching with the military is not a valid comparison:
** Education is not a fundamental service of government. Defending the borders is. We have 150,000 years of human experience as proof.
* Young men ( Note that it is men only.) register starting at age 18. Why? They do this so that if needed a draft could be quickly implemented. When has this ever been the case so that society could provide for the staffing of socialist schools?
Voting to provide for education at the local level does absolutely nothing to anyone’s first amendment rights. They are free not to attend. They can school at home, they can attend private schools, they can attend computer schools. Nothing prevents it.
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787, put into effect just prior to the US Constitution’s ratification and continuing afterward for decades said in Article III:
“”Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.””
That line has the Founding Era fathers of our nation recommending religion and schools.
I see this differently than you, but I must admit that you are a polite debater. I suspect we’ll not see it the same way on this thing, especially about ostracizing teachers, but it’s a free country.
You seem to like early mornings as well. :>)