I am a homeschooling parent. It does feel fair in a juvenile kind of way to say: I shouldn't have to subsidize public education for other people's kids when I take on the entire cost burden of educating my own.
But that argument smacks of the whining 9-year-old who can't be burdened with washing dishes, because he didn't personally use every single dish. IT'S NOT FAIR. How then, shall we divide it to please your infantile ideas about independence and bodily autonomy? Are you proposing to wash exactly 1/5 of the rice pot your dinner (and everyone else's) was cooked in? Shall we order DNA tests for every particle of dead skin fallen as dust in the living room, to be certain you don't have to clean up anyone else's debris?
No. We don't live in Libertarian (Dys?)Utopia where nobody need concern themselves with anything or anybody outside their sphere of physical influence. Perhaps, instead, a better way to view the problem is-- since we're all paying for it, and we are all affected by the quality of the school system (even if we have no children, or we don't send our kids there), we all have a vested interest in seeing that the schools are functional, well-run, well-maintained, physically safe, and focusing on turning out literate, numerate adults who can navigate the adult world before, or upon, graduation. Like it or not, it's my problem and your problem, so maybe we should take more of an interest.
I should note, that I am 100% in favor of individual counties, cities, and even states, being able to conduct experiments to find out what sort of state involvement (or lack thereof) gets the best results. I don't think we're stuck with crappy public schools, but it's clear not everyone can homeschool, and not everyone can afford private schools. We are barely hanging on, on one income, so that we can homeschool. Inflation being what it is, I dread the day when we can no longer afford this, and I have to them to school so I can earn a paycheck. I'm in favor of subsidized education being available, as long as nobody is required to participate, and the money isn't being wasted actively making people's lives worse, or failing to provide any actual education. Public apathy is what gets us to where we are.
I say: let's try everything. Let's try vouchers. Let's try breaking up huge schools and returning them to small neighborhood deals where everybody can walk there. Let's try Charlotte Mason schools, and Classical schools and Illich/Holt/Reimer-style learning resource centers. Let's try apprenticeships. Let's try ditching licensing requirements for teachers, and/or establishing alternative credentialing processes and institutions. There was a time, not all that long ago, where getting a teaching certificate only required passing a general knowledge test, and was a common temp job for bright young people who were on their way to getting married or going into a more remunerative profession. Their young students benefitted, and the pool of old, burnt-out, subpar teachers was smaller (there is a huge difference between teachers who are on their way to better things, and teachers who stay in the job forever because they can't do any better or are trapped there by college loans). The US literacy rate was higher then. Maybe teachers should be trained by paid internships, instead of pauperized by 7 years of unnecessary college. Then, when they finally got in the classroom and found out they hated kids, they could more easily move on to other professions.
I'm just reading your latest post. Will watch vid tomorrow as it's time to sleep. I do understand networks but don't get energy harvesting bit yet. I understand two way traffic, send receive packets. Sabrina Wallace says this has been going on since early 2000's. I always knew jabs were not for any virus and with the impossible task of everything going green, I'm wondering if they have enough juice for servers to store all this data. Need someone to do Dummies Guide for lay folk.
The fact that we are still in the game means that the Cult has not won! I still am encouraged when I can speak with people about ordinary things - no politics, religion or the other!
great article. The State is definitely the enemy. I have thought and said for a long time that the only true democracy is local democracy. What is democratic about the government at the capital of the empire 2000 miles distant telling my local government what it can and cannot do? Empire is the worst form of government. Global "government" is a complete joke! A scary joke, but a joke nonetheless. We need to get rid of governments of empire and we need to change the hierarchy of government, so that local government is at the top of the hierarchy, meaning whatever is decided locally cannot be overridden by state government or government of empire.
I am a homeschooling parent. It does feel fair in a juvenile kind of way to say: I shouldn't have to subsidize public education for other people's kids when I take on the entire cost burden of educating my own.
But that argument smacks of the whining 9-year-old who can't be burdened with washing dishes, because he didn't personally use every single dish. IT'S NOT FAIR. How then, shall we divide it to please your infantile ideas about independence and bodily autonomy? Are you proposing to wash exactly 1/5 of the rice pot your dinner (and everyone else's) was cooked in? Shall we order DNA tests for every particle of dead skin fallen as dust in the living room, to be certain you don't have to clean up anyone else's debris?
No. We don't live in Libertarian (Dys?)Utopia where nobody need concern themselves with anything or anybody outside their sphere of physical influence. Perhaps, instead, a better way to view the problem is-- since we're all paying for it, and we are all affected by the quality of the school system (even if we have no children, or we don't send our kids there), we all have a vested interest in seeing that the schools are functional, well-run, well-maintained, physically safe, and focusing on turning out literate, numerate adults who can navigate the adult world before, or upon, graduation. Like it or not, it's my problem and your problem, so maybe we should take more of an interest.
I should note, that I am 100% in favor of individual counties, cities, and even states, being able to conduct experiments to find out what sort of state involvement (or lack thereof) gets the best results. I don't think we're stuck with crappy public schools, but it's clear not everyone can homeschool, and not everyone can afford private schools. We are barely hanging on, on one income, so that we can homeschool. Inflation being what it is, I dread the day when we can no longer afford this, and I have to them to school so I can earn a paycheck. I'm in favor of subsidized education being available, as long as nobody is required to participate, and the money isn't being wasted actively making people's lives worse, or failing to provide any actual education. Public apathy is what gets us to where we are.
I say: let's try everything. Let's try vouchers. Let's try breaking up huge schools and returning them to small neighborhood deals where everybody can walk there. Let's try Charlotte Mason schools, and Classical schools and Illich/Holt/Reimer-style learning resource centers. Let's try apprenticeships. Let's try ditching licensing requirements for teachers, and/or establishing alternative credentialing processes and institutions. There was a time, not all that long ago, where getting a teaching certificate only required passing a general knowledge test, and was a common temp job for bright young people who were on their way to getting married or going into a more remunerative profession. Their young students benefitted, and the pool of old, burnt-out, subpar teachers was smaller (there is a huge difference between teachers who are on their way to better things, and teachers who stay in the job forever because they can't do any better or are trapped there by college loans). The US literacy rate was higher then. Maybe teachers should be trained by paid internships, instead of pauperized by 7 years of unnecessary college. Then, when they finally got in the classroom and found out they hated kids, they could more easily move on to other professions.
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Hedge funds must sell to the renters ! Simple! No change to the payments!
I like it! When do we start?
So depressing along with other reads today. And, if my card has not arrived yet, it will be the last time I pay for 1st class (next day) delivery!
Just checked my mail box - it's here - thank you, thank you and Merry Christmas to you!
Hope one of many!
Would be nice! I am already trying to immerse myself in the carol "away in a manger" - atmospherics that the words impart!
I'm just reading your latest post. Will watch vid tomorrow as it's time to sleep. I do understand networks but don't get energy harvesting bit yet. I understand two way traffic, send receive packets. Sabrina Wallace says this has been going on since early 2000's. I always knew jabs were not for any virus and with the impossible task of everything going green, I'm wondering if they have enough juice for servers to store all this data. Need someone to do Dummies Guide for lay folk.
The fact that we are still in the game means that the Cult has not won! I still am encouraged when I can speak with people about ordinary things - no politics, religion or the other!
great article. The State is definitely the enemy. I have thought and said for a long time that the only true democracy is local democracy. What is democratic about the government at the capital of the empire 2000 miles distant telling my local government what it can and cannot do? Empire is the worst form of government. Global "government" is a complete joke! A scary joke, but a joke nonetheless. We need to get rid of governments of empire and we need to change the hierarchy of government, so that local government is at the top of the hierarchy, meaning whatever is decided locally cannot be overridden by state government or government of empire.