Joan, I agree with you that Carrol's attack on your position was snippy
and hostile. I might add that one does not have to believe that
socialism is the cause, to believe that the public school system is
being made more and more dysfunctional.
What is it about the public schools that you find to be socialist in
nature? And why would that lead to the public schools being the
miserably inadequate places for education that they are? And aren't
private schools generally even worse places to want to put your kids?
I certainly believe so.
Tony
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Carrol-
I won't react to your hostile reply: <<This is a dippy notion fit only
for
the comics>>
other than to refer you to the following. If you simply had a bad day,
you may be interested in another viewpoint. If this is your
characteristic mindset, then it is for the benefit of those who are not
like you...
Joan
The Cement Canoe
Marshall Fritz
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In America, local governments started absorbing independent schools in
the 1830s. "State schooling" became dominant within three decades.
Government-run schooling is like a cement canoe full of microscopic
holes. It worked for a bit, but as it began filling with water, energy
was diverted from paddling to bailing. Each person sees him/herself
bailing hard and wonders what fool stuck his foot through the bottom.
Since nobody admits it, somebody must be lying!
Our cement canoe is full of parents, teachers, children, principals,
school board members, legislators, and educators. Accusations fly as
they all seek the culprit (or class of culprits) responsible for
sabotaging the canoe. Name calling and finger pointing divert people
from the weaknesses of the flawed cement canoe: an educational system
based on socialism, (the government ownership and operation of the means
of production.) It's not the people in the canoe causing the problem,
it's the canoe itself. Attempts to blame educators for educational
system failures prevent them from looking at the merits of alternative
ideas. They just return the ad hominem attacks. Most educators are good
people trying to do good work. But they're caught in a system that
doesn't work, the cement canoe of socialism.
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