Substitute Medicine for education in your statement and reconsider. Do you have a right to remove your child's appendix because you are their parent? You think nothing of educating your child yourself but wouldn't dream of practicing medicine on them.
Thank you. You make my point exactly. I choose, using my best judgment as a parent.
I prefer to let trained professional airline pilots fly any jet on which I travel. I prefer trained surgeons for surgery. I can independently evaluate the circumstances and make the decision for myself. When I see something I can do better than the so-called professionals, I can choose to do it myself.
Joe, in most cases homeschooling is preferable to public schooling because, among other reasons, it prevents the state from indoctrinating your children with statist thinking.
However, in your case, it's a wash. Go ahead and put yours on the bus; it's less work.
What makes you think that state licensure assures quality? Is the state accountable for verifying performance to standards? Or does state regulation absove practitioners of liability?
Don't believe that? Let me give you an example: Because airplanes met federal specifications there was no need for hardened cockpit doors and armed pilots on civilian passenger aircraft. Thus insurers were off the hook for the liability of a failure of that system. If it had been up to insurers to pay for the consequences, there is no way hardened doors would not have been there because the price of the insurance would have made cheesy doors not worth an extra first class seat. Had civil risk management systems been in place, 911 would have never happened.
No, regulation does more to absolve accountability and minimize quality than anything else. That's why Underwriters Laboratories works better than the DOT.
BWAHAHAHAAHAH!
Ah yes. A degree for those too worthless to take anything else.
That is the stupidist allegory I have ever seen, and I have never called anybody a name on this forum before, and hope to never again! From the day a child is born you as a parent are a teacher( you must not have children or you would have figured this out by now). We as humans naturally teach our children. We do it with out a college degree in education! We are constantly learning and we are constantly sharing that knowledge(teaching). Believe me it does not require a degree in education to out perform any public education and our test scores yearly prove it!!
A degree in something does not make you an expert. On my own without a university I could immerse myself in a subject and with enough studying on my part and internship time, could be better prepaired in that subject than those with a degree. A degree does not make you proficient, just ask busisnesses who get these kids out of college.
Does a parent have the right to remove a child from the care of a doctor who claims to be able to remove an appendix but has had numerous complaints filed against him/her for falsely diagnosing children or removing appendixes in such a way that it further harms the child? Of course they do. It's a matter of choice and the parents have the say over what they feel is the best medical tretment available as well as what the child best educational options are. It's not up to the government to make those decisions.