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I think you're missing adamtmca's point, which is that when you are given advice from someone who you have no opportunity to evaluate their capabilities it is n

I think you're missing adamtmca's point, which is that when you are given advice from someone who you have no opportunity to evaluate their capabilities it is necessary to question their advice when it contradicts your own evaluation of the situation. In the scenario you present, I would expect adamtmca to question advice from the appointed physician, lawyer, etc. as they would that of the public schoolteacher. I'd go even further to state that you should aways question the assertions of specialists regardless of their credentials or prior experience when their opinion does not agree with your own; any rational professional should be capable of explaining there position reasonably and if they cannot, then further evaluation is in order.

adamtmca 15y ago
Exactly. Of course I wasn't asserting that in every situation you are able to choose the specialist you work with. I was pointing out that public school parents have little to no opportunity to evaluate and choose their children's teachers and, understandably, this makes accepting a teacher's opinion carte blanche seem pretty unreasonable, even foolish. Picking who teaches your children should be nothing like arriving in the emergency room with a bullet wound. It's not hard to conceive of a public education system where parents are given a lot more choice about the teachers teaching their children.