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To: boxlunch
The most ideologically pure solution would be to totally abandon the public school system and let every parent decide for themselves how to school their kids. I personally think that would be a wonderful thing and that the taxes saved and the competition created would actually mean most parents could privately educate their kids however they wished and it would be surprisingly affordable.

Nice to see that someone agrees with me, even if it's only in principle!

That being said, it is highly, highly unlikely that is ever going to happen....

Probably not in our lifetime, but I have hope for our grandchildren if we start laying the philosophical groundwork now...

17 posted on 09/17/2009 3:53:11 PM PDT by Alex Murphy (...We never faced anything like this...we only fought humans.)
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To: Alex Murphy

I think that trying to stop socialism in government schools is like trying to stop up the Mississippi River, but we still have to try, meanwhile, I’d love to hear your thoughts and ideas on how in the world you could ever convince more than a tiny minority that it’s the right way to go. (Please believe you don’t have to convince me,,, I just wouldn’t know how to begin to get the idea out in the mainstream).

The biggest thing giving me hope right now is all the courses available on the internet now, and they are starting to be used not only by homeschoolers & private schoolers, but by public school kids doing dual credit for graduation, or getting certain basic core courses out of the way in first couple of years of college. The more that whole idea expands, the more there is the potential to break the government school monopoly. But somehow you have to change the thinking that if you don’t have a degree from an “accredited” high school (or college) that your learning is worthless...because that thinking is a big part of how they keep their control of the monopoly.


18 posted on 09/17/2009 4:03:20 PM PDT by boxlunch
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