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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hillsdale's President recorded behind closed doors in Tennessee: https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/revealed/revealed-teachers-come-from-dumbest-parts-of-dumbest-colleges-tenn-governors-education-advisor-tells-him

"Education destroys generations of people"
"Education. It's easy. You don't have to know anything," and 
"We are going to try to demonstrate that you don't have to be an expert to educate a child because basically anybody can do it."

This is the school privatization agenda. Religious fanatics [b]destroying traditional public education.[/b] [/quote]

I'm absolutely not a religious fanatic, but traditional public education is destroyed already. Anyone who says otherwise must be in a good public school without massive discipline issues, kids who come to school ready to learn and parents who care about their kids. [/quote]

No, the issue is not that some ideal version of schooling has been destroyed by bad kids and bad parents. [b]The issue is that people try to use a public good like a finite, private resource to be hoarded and defended against [i]those[/i] kids and [i]those[/i] parents. My kids attend Title 1 schools with students in public housing and I am deeply offended that you would suggest that the students don't come to school ready to learn or have caring parents.[/b]

Is it possible that your decision to reject public education as an option has led you to confirmation bias regarding its merits? After all, you wouldn't want the time and money you've spent avoiding public school to be for nothing.

FWIW, there are definitely things my kids aren't getting . . . fancy field trips and facilities, etc. But what they ARE getting is invaluable . . . a chance to see the humanity in people that many of their circumstances would simply avoid and judge. I can take them on field trips myself, but I can't teach them to love their neighbors as themselves unless I stop curating who gets to be their neighbor. [/quote]

Very well said. 
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