Do I think parents have the right to neglect or mistreat their children? No, I don't, and if they do, society has the right to step in an enforce minimal standards of treatment, or if necessary, remove the children. Your liberty gives you wide latitude to act in or even against your own interests. It does not give you wide liberty to hurt others.
I've read enough Rand to know... that I don't sound like Rand.
You were doing better when you were splittin' your britches trying to tar me as an Old-Testament Christian Reconstructionist -- at least you could use the ole' "guilt by association" tactic. Now you're just making this stuff up as you go.
It was irksome at first; now it's just getting pathetic.
Do I think parents have the right to neglect or mistreat their children? No, I don't, and if they do, society has the right to step in an enforce minimal standards of treatment, or if necessary, remove the children. Your liberty gives you wide latitude to act in or even against your own interests. It does not give you wide liberty to hurt others.
Basically, what you define as "the right to neglect or mistreat their children" is teaching anything EXCEPT the rote instruction of the (unproven) Theory of Evolution AS A FACT.
And if we are opposed to the rote instruction of the (unproven) Theory of Evolution? Well, then -- "society has the right to step in an enforce minimal standards of treatment, or if necessary, remove the children."
Stalinism, thy name is "Right Wing Professor".
You are the Enemy of States' Rights over Education. You are the Enemy of Academic Freedom. You are the Enemy of Parent's Rights, and You are the Enemy of Individualism.
You are the Enemy of ANYTHING that stands in the way of Evolutionist Domination of the Educational Process, using Other People's Money to enforce your personal Atheistic-Creation-Myth on Other People's Children.
If the $7,000 per-child, per-year is ever returned wholsale to the Parents, then I will win, and you will lose. You know it as well as you can read the demographic figures in the US Almanac.
That is why you can't be a True Libertarian. You NEED State Funding in order to continue the propagation of your popularly-rejected Belief System.
Once Evolutionism in America loses its base of State Funding, then Evolutionism in America is dead.
You know it. I know it. Now it's just a question of how many times y'all Evolutionists can get the Supreme Court to protect your Educational Monopoly, versus how many times we Creationists can keep bringing it back up to the Court -- from a thousand different angles, only needing one Wedge to break in.
In time, you'll tire.
We won't.
Best, OP