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They don't actually care about children being protected. If they did, who in their right mind would trust the government to pull it off? It's like people who se

They don't actually care about children being protected. If they did, who in their right mind would trust the government to pull it off? It's like people who send their kids to public school thinking they're really going to be safe and educated. They're either rolling their dice with the best option they have, knowing there's a significant likelihood of failure, or checking a box. "My kid's in school, I did what I needed to do, now it's someone else's problem."

dennis_jeeves2 2mo ago
> "My kid's in school, I did what I needed to do, now it's someone else's problem." You got it right. This is exactly the attitude of most parents.
fn-mote 2mo ago
> It's like people who send their kids to public school thinking they're really going to be safe and educated I really feel like I missed the /s or something. Or possibly the poster went to a much worse public school than I did? (USA public = government funded.) Reducing a challenge like education to a sound bite to win an argument on HN lowers the level of dialog. Also, where I live the majority of people trust the government enough to send their children to public school, and it isn’t clear that the pay-for schools are much better.
- jollyllama 2mo ago
  As of 2025, the majority of American adults are dissatisfied with the public education system [0]. [0] https://news.gallup.com/poll/1612/education.aspx https://news.gallup.com/poll/1612/education.aspx
- eks391 2mo ago
  I obviously can't speak for everyone, but even when I was in school, I knew (thought) schools primary purpose was to babysit kids and teens so any damage they were doing was in a contained environment. Education was just busy work and safety is definitely a goal but a difficult objective. When I went to college, I met friends with dramatically different experiences in their schools than I had, and that was the first time the idea that school was more than just a babysitting camp had crossed my mind. My school was safe from exterior threats, and they took the bomb threats and jail breaks very seriously, even holding us in our classrooms late into the day until the perpetrator was caught, but internal threats caused by kids would always outnumber the teachers capacity to thwart. My parents choose where we lived based on the school having the least violence in the area so I know my experience wasn't even on the extreme end. Edit: I realize I didn't address education. In short, in successful because my mom put a lot of work trying to educate me and ensure I took homework seriously. Even though I hardly attended my classes, I graduated top 10% because submitting homework was all you needed to do to surpass your peers. Any kids whose only educational influence was school itself, at least where I grew up, didn't receive much of an education.

dennis_jeeves2 2mo ago

> "My kid's in school, I did what I needed to do, now it's someone else's problem." You got it right. This is exactly the attitude of most parents.

fn-mote 2mo ago

> It's like people who send their kids to public school thinking they're really going to be safe and educated I really feel like I missed the /s or something. Or possibly the poster went to a much worse public school than I did? (USA public = government funded.) Reducing a challenge like education to a sound bite to win an argument on HN lowers the level of dialog. Also, where I live the majority of people trust the government enough to send their children to public school, and it isn’t clear that the pay-for schools are much better.

jollyllama 2mo ago
As of 2025, the majority of American adults are dissatisfied with the public education system [0]. [0] https://news.gallup.com/poll/1612/education.aspx https://news.gallup.com/poll/1612/education.aspx
eks391 2mo ago
I obviously can't speak for everyone, but even when I was in school, I knew (thought) schools primary purpose was to babysit kids and teens so any damage they were doing was in a contained environment. Education was just busy work and safety is definitely a goal but a difficult objective. When I went to college, I met friends with dramatically different experiences in their schools than I had, and that was the first time the idea that school was more than just a babysitting camp had crossed my mind. My school was safe from exterior threats, and they took the bomb threats and jail breaks very seriously, even holding us in our classrooms late into the day until the perpetrator was caught, but internal threats caused by kids would always outnumber the teachers capacity to thwart. My parents choose where we lived based on the school having the least violence in the area so I know my experience wasn't even on the extreme end. Edit: I realize I didn't address education. In short, in successful because my mom put a lot of work trying to educate me and ensure I took homework seriously. Even though I hardly attended my classes, I graduated top 10% because submitting homework was all you needed to do to surpass your peers. Any kids whose only educational influence was school itself, at least where I grew up, didn't receive much of an education.