At 08:43 AM 10/7/1999 -0700, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
This is one reason
>>> we have mandatory schooling.
>
>Very sloppy thinking. Subsidized education and mandatory education have
>nothing to do with each other. The first is an economic issue: should we
>use tax dollars to educate children? The latter is a human rights issue:
>should we enslave children to state-run indoctrination centers and jail
>parents who dissent? I have some sympathy for those who favor the
>former; it raises my libertarian hackles a bit and I think education can
>be more than adequately handled by private means, but it's arguable.
>But mandatory education should be morally repugnant to any civilized
>human. The fact that it is not is very distressing.
>
Never said I agreed with state mandated schools, just pointed up one reason they exist. Back around the turn of the century, do-gooders convinced governments to mandate schooling for all in a certain age group...
What I was trying to say is: do we have a way of supporting education for the children of people who cannot afford private tuition, and what is the best way to do so.
Chuck Kuecker