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I'm not seeing this connection that you and others are making between private schools and tutoring or homeschooling. When I say private schools, I mean it in th
by mindvirus 5y ago
I'm not seeing this connection that you and others are making between private schools and tutoring or homeschooling. When I say private schools, I mean it in the sense most people think of private schools: large institutions requiring applications, charging tuition and hiring teachers not related to the students, not "any form of education not provided publicly". I don't think homeschooling fits this definition.
The point is to move the bar for removing yourself higher - systems are complicated, there are no perfect solutions. Of course, people will always find a way - at the very least, they can move to another country. Right now though a significant number of people opt out of the public system and I think that's a huge problem.
- muyuu 5y agoI don't think that bar shift is enough in America - in America, the super-rich control and fund politics, it's not Finland; you're just condemning the kids of the slightly better off to a terrible education and to have it worse than their parents, which is already happening in housing
- zepto 5y ago> The point is to move the bar for removing yourself higher No, the point was to make the people with the power to do something about it be forced to use public schools. Just moving the bar a bit higher would have no such effect. > Right now though a significant number of people opt out of the public system and I think that's a huge problem. Why? What’s wrong with thinking the public school system is bad (which it obviously is) and doing something better for you child?