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To: wintertime
I believe that you don't understand the depth of technical subjects, or the expense of school facilities that can handle the large numbers of pupils.

More importantly, the number of teachers qualified to teach certain subjects are limited. There are not enough of them as it is, and those numbers could not be factored into large numbers of smaller facilities.

It is MY government. It is OUR government. Why do you object so strongly to MAKING it conform to the needs of the people? What ever happened to a government of the People, by the People, and for the People? Have you surrendered? I surely haven't.

Organizations that school for a profit are not likely to be any better than government facilities. Corporate schools would indoctrinate kids into their corporate mold. All hail to the Phone Company! A local theater group is just chuck full of communist-want-to-bees, for that is the nature of the performing arts. An ice skate instructor is not there because of his grasp of physics or chemistry, and local baseball or soccer clubs are not general hotbeds of mathematics, software engineering, or any scholarly pursuits for that matter. I suppose you think that the local garbage dump would be a great place to find a biology lab and qualified teachers.

You do not seem to have a grasp of reality. It must be nice to hang out with unicorns and leprechauns.

95 posted on 10/02/2015 7:54:30 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: GingisK
The only thing my homeschoolers had was a kitchen.

But....They started college at the ages of 13, 12, and 13. Two completed B.S. degrees in mathematics at the age of 18. One was teaching math to college students at the age of 18 and had a masters in math at 20.

I think I know what it takes to educate children and it isn't a lot of expensive stuff.

98 posted on 10/03/2015 6:26:00 PM PDT by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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To: GingisK
Re: Making government schools conform

The reason I object is because it is **IMPOSSIBLE** to have a religiously, culturally, and politically neutral government school. Why? Answer: Because NO school can be neutral. Such a philosophic state of religious, cultural, and political neutrality is impossible in the mind of any sentient human.

I object because Government schools are a First Amendment and freedom of conscience abomination.

I object because it is NOT a conservative principle to force my neighbor to pay for my anointed worldview.

I object because just to maintain order and safety in the government school, the government functionaries **must** trash First Amendment Rights of the children. There is a risk that the children may become accustomed to having their human and First Amendment Rights trashed by government workers.

I object because government should not be running a monopoly cartel that is funded by way of police threat and with “customers” that are also under police threat to use the service.

I object because I fully believe that the private market would supply more flexible, more creative, and more effective education that would more closely uphold the values taught in the home.

And...None of the above can be fixed because it is a structural part of the government school monopoly cartel.

Is that enough reasons?

99 posted on 10/03/2015 6:34:33 PM PDT by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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To: GingisK
“You do not seem to have a grasp of reality. It must be nice to hang out with unicorns and leprechauns.”
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The above is a personal attack . Do you know what that means?

I am not impressed.

Given that you are teacher in a government school, I have complete confidence in your professionalism with your students. I fully trust if a student challenged your worldview’s belief system that you would be completely and totally professional and would never, never, never, attack a child on a personal level.Nope a government teacher would never do that.

100 posted on 10/03/2015 6:46:43 PM PDT by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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