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Parents can educate their own children. The costs for well outlined curriculum in the digital age are minimal.

micromacrofoot 4y ago
This kind of comment usually comes from someone very young, or maybe unfamiliar with the state of many family's lives in the US. Parents aren't often educated well themselves. They don't know how to teach anything to anyone. Some of the working poor don't even have time to cook their kids reasonable meals. Locally we're experiencing a bus driver shortage (more like a pay shortage), and the school district knows that on days without buses... some kids don't show up because there's no one home that can take the time off of work to bring them to school. Parents with the education, time, and money can educate their own children. Outside of the upper-middle class... it's rare to encounter parents who have all of those. If we were to rely on parents for education, we'd be setting half the country back by a good 50 years. Literacy rates would absolutely plummet.
- randomtwiddler 4y ago
  This is a problem of responsibility. Regardless of conditions, ultimate responsibility for a child's education is with the parents. This notion that it is the governments job is backwards and dangerous. Teachers don't love my children. Administrators don't love my children. I love my children. Anything someone might claim is love, doesn't hold a candle to a loving parent. Taking responsible for education doesn't mean you have to do it all yourself. You see that it happens and accept the personal cost. Your assumptions about me is not only wrong it's irrelevant. Not only do I have more experience raising children than any two men you are likely to know (I have many), I've lived among much much poorer people than 99% of hacker news. In places that struggle with running water and electricity to say nothing of Internet (none). You're feeding me a bunch of excuses. Yes, some people struggle and it can impact their ability to do it. But where there is a will there's a way. Good parents find a way, it has much less to do with wealth and much much more to do with good family structure - which even poor people can do perfectly fine. Cause and effect are often reversed. You aren't going to have good families because you are wealthy. Families get wealth when they are good families. When children are well loved and have good characters they will prosper. They will understand good families and tend to have good families themselves. A lack of love creates behavioral problems that can dominate a life and can easily be passed into the next generation. A society centered around school life will not provide children with love in a life devoid of it. Society can't fix the problems at home but it can certainly stop getting in the way.

This kind of comment usually comes from someone very young, or maybe unfamiliar with the state of many family's lives in the US. Parents aren't often educated well themselves. They don't know how to teach anything to anyone. Some of the working poor don't even have time to cook their kids reasonable meals. Locally we're experiencing a bus driver shortage (more like a pay shortage), and the school district knows that on days without buses... some kids don't show up because there's no one home that can take the time off of work to bring them to school. Parents with the education, time, and money can educate their own children. Outside of the upper-middle class... it's rare to encounter parents who have all of those. If we were to rely on parents for education, we'd be setting half the country back by a good 50 years. Literacy rates would absolutely plummet.

randomtwiddler 4y ago
This is a problem of responsibility. Regardless of conditions, ultimate responsibility for a child's education is with the parents. This notion that it is the governments job is backwards and dangerous. Teachers don't love my children. Administrators don't love my children. I love my children. Anything someone might claim is love, doesn't hold a candle to a loving parent. Taking responsible for education doesn't mean you have to do it all yourself. You see that it happens and accept the personal cost. Your assumptions about me is not only wrong it's irrelevant. Not only do I have more experience raising children than any two men you are likely to know (I have many), I've lived among much much poorer people than 99% of hacker news. In places that struggle with running water and electricity to say nothing of Internet (none). You're feeding me a bunch of excuses. Yes, some people struggle and it can impact their ability to do it. But where there is a will there's a way. Good parents find a way, it has much less to do with wealth and much much more to do with good family structure - which even poor people can do perfectly fine. Cause and effect are often reversed. You aren't going to have good families because you are wealthy. Families get wealth when they are good families. When children are well loved and have good characters they will prosper. They will understand good families and tend to have good families themselves. A lack of love creates behavioral problems that can dominate a life and can easily be passed into the next generation. A society centered around school life will not provide children with love in a life devoid of it. Society can't fix the problems at home but it can certainly stop getting in the way.