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> No parent should be stuck without options when educational governance goes sideways like this. You say this, but what you actually mean is no wealthy parent
by vkou 3y ago
> No parent should be stuck without options when educational governance goes sideways like this.
You say this, but what you actually mean is no wealthy parent should be stuck without options.
The hoi polloi that can't afford the voucher plus mountain of money private school tuition will still be quite stuck without options, except that you've also created an explicit two-class system.
I hear those do wonders for social cohesion. As will opening a firehose of money into the insane fundamentalist indoctrination that so many parents wish to inflict on their children, but can't in public school.
- rory 3y ago> The hoi polloi that can't afford the voucher plus mountain of money private school tuition What are you talking about? The voucher is supplied by the state, and charter schools are definitionally tuition-free to students and their families.
- b800h 3y agoBit of a weird position to take that you're in favour of schools doing indoctrination, just as long as it's away from the viewpoint you don't like. That's pretty authoritarian; seems to be on the rise these days.
- vkou 3y ago> Bit of a weird position to take that you're in favour of schools doing indoctrination, just as long as it's away from the viewpoint you don't like. No, it's not. Society only works when people believe in a shared fiction, and when they stop believing it, things go completely to shit. I would absolutely oppose indoctrination into a bad shared fiction, just like a religious person would oppose indoctrination into a 'religion is the opiate of the masses and must be purged from society' shared fiction, or like a pro-democracy person would oppose indoctrination into 'the way forward is installing an autocracy that will seize power through force of arms' shared fiction, or like how most of us would probably have issues with pro-ISIS indoctrination.