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To: timm22
Some of my ancestors donated parts of their farms to communities to start schools. It wasn't until the state grabbed ahold of education that it became an issue.

If 99% of people pulled their kids out of the local school & all of them put their kids into a school they formed together, abandoning the school building to the 1% in the process, what do you think would happen?

I shouldn't have to move to a different community just to be left alone and to raise a family as I see fit.

Gotcha. You feel it's the role of the government to force values on the governed. Freedom of movement is ceeded to the right to stay put.

By your reasoning, we should have just told the blacks living under Jim Crow to move north, so the white majorities of the towns of the South could preserve "local control."

You raise a good point. Now that Jim Crow has been eliminated, the biggest complaint is about white flight. Maybe we need some news laws to stop that from happening...

186 posted on 11/01/2006 4:00:11 PM PST by GoLightly
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To: GoLightly
Some of my ancestors donated parts of their farms to communities to start schools. It wasn't until the state grabbed ahold of education that it became an issue.

Whenever the state gets involved in something, it always seems to become and issue.

If 99% of people pulled their kids out of the local school & all of them put their kids into a school they formed together, abandoning the school building to the 1% in the process, what do you think would happen?

In our current, public system? The 99% would end up paying twice over to educate their kids, first in taxes for the old school and then in whatever costs are associated with the new school. The remaining 1% would enjoy the same funding as before.

Gotcha. You feel it's the role of the government to force values on the governed. Freedom of movement is ceeded to the right to stay put.

Absolutely not. I'm advocating AGAINST state intervention in education, in part because I am opposed to government-enforced values. You're trying to turn an individual's right to free movement into some kind of grant of government power. It's akin to saying I'm against free speech if I oppose government sponsored muezzins...after all, I can always exercise my right to free speech if I don't like the imam's message, right?

You raise a good point. Now that Jim Crow has been eliminated, the biggest complaint is about white flight. Maybe we need some news laws to stop that from happening...

Why would we need to do that? Or am I just missing a sarcasm tag here?

189 posted on 11/01/2006 4:35:24 PM PST by timm22 (Think critically)
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