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> literally becomes forcing all children to be educated by government institutions...which is bad this may be a very US perspective, but i'm totally with you h
by leetcrew 8y ago
> literally becomes forcing all children to be educated by government institutions...which is bad
this may be a very US perspective, but i'm totally with you here. it is certainly in the interest of a free society for tomorrow's citizens to at least have comparable standards of education (far from today's reality), but to have literally 100% of education administered by the government seems like a dangerous level of control to me. there's gotta be some independent system keeping them honest.
anecdotally, i went to a private high school and had several friends at well-funded public schools in the county. though we all received high quality educations, they reported that their curriculum contained a lot less of the dirtier aspects of US history, which i was gleefully exposed to in class by some of the more subversive instructors at my school.
- rhacker 8y agoI think that may be a teacher by teacher type thing. I went to a public school. I definitely remember something that stood out: The teacher instructed everyone to move all the desks to the perimeter of the classroom. Then had everyone lie down and pretend their hands and legs were bound together. Pictures of boats like this were also in the text books. Similar classes where we discussed in detail the wars against native americans... now, that all being said, this was in the Silicon Valley (before it was called that collectively). So I can't exactly describe public schools in say, Kansas.