Public School Education System Thread

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

Having been online-radicalized by you fucking lunatics, I've become an advocate for privatizing education and market solutions to our country's education failures.

It is shocking how completely unreceptive people are to even considering it. For some reason making more government at a higher price tag in order to do something that government has been failing at for decades doesn't strike most people as very sorry problem solving.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Home schooling has always been the best option.

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

Home-school kids are weirdos.

But, more broadly, I think the attitude that there is one 'best' option, and that we know what that option is, is part of the problem. Maximize options and choice with vigorous competition.

[Martin Hash]

Having been online-radicalized by you fucking lunatics, I've become an advocate for privatizing education and market solutions to our country's education failures.

It is shocking how completely unreceptive people are to even considering it. For some reason making more government at a higher price tag in order to do something that government has been failing at for decades doesn't strike most people as very sorry problem solving.

First: brainwashing
Second: from the authoritarian perspective, public schooling is only secondarily for educating students; it's for indoctrination & control.

[Martin Hash]

Home-school kids are weirdos.

Nothing wrong with weirdos as long as they aren't forced to join the Army of Darkness by a nepotistic society.

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

Having been online-radicalized by you fucking lunatics, I've become an advocate for privatizing education and market solutions to our country's education failures.

It is shocking how completely unreceptive people are to even considering it. For some reason making more government at a higher price tag in order to do something that government has been failing at for decades doesn't strike most people as very sorry problem solving.

First: brainwashing
Second: from the authoritarian perspective, public schooling is only secondarily for educating students; it's for indoctrination & control.

The first thing sort of tracks - but I haven't been talking to authoritarians or egalitarians. I'm talking to people who believe in markets and meritocracy - but for some reason, the idea of privatizing education is just anathema.

I think people lack ready examples of how market competition increases meaningful 'equality of opportunity' (the argument they always make for more government), or how centralized, top-down 'solutions' destroy it.

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

Home-school kids are weirdos.

Nothing wrong with weirdos as long as they aren't forced to join the Army of Darkness by a nepotistic society.

No one is forced to join the Army of Darkness - it is an all volunteer force.

[DBTrek]

Having been online-radicalized by you fucking lunatics, I've become an advocate for privatizing education and market solutions to our country's education failures.

It is shocking how completely unreceptive people are to even considering it. For some reason making more government at a higher price tag in order to do something that government has been failing at for decades doesn't strike most people as very sorry problem solving.

Oh indeed.
INDEED.
Well, glad to hear the radicalization worked, because now that you're beginning to see the naked emperor first hand, the vastness of his girth, and repulsiveness of his physique, will become more and more apparent over time.
You have stared into the abyss.
No looking back now.

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

Having been online-radicalized by you fucking lunatics, I've become an advocate for privatizing education and market solutions to our country's education failures.

It is shocking how completely unreceptive people are to even considering it. For some reason making more government at a higher price tag in order to do something that government has been failing at for decades doesn't strike most people as very sorry problem solving.

Oh indeed.
INDEED.
Well, glad to hear the radicalization worked, because now that you're beginning to see the naked emperor first hand, the vastness of his girth, and repulsiveness of his physique, will become more and more apparent over time.
You have stared into the abyss.
No looking back now.

I'm just trying to remember what convinced me, so I can pass on the abysmal vision.

[DBTrek]

I'm just trying to remember what convinced me, so I can pass on the abysmal vision.

Like trying to discover which thread of the cocoon transmogrified you from a slothful, stubby-legged caterpillar into a winged Monarch. Probably wasn't the single thread, but the laborious weaving and exposure to the whole cocoon.