Generally speaking I don't think the average American is qualified to teach their children education. The issues with the American education system are systematic issues usually due to poor state funding (the south) and banning books for no reason (Florida). Also home schooling doesn't do a kid any favors in terms of learning social skills. Not saying kids should be bullied but going to public school teaches you to deal with butthole and work with people of different backgrounds than yourself which is a useful skill that you literally cannot get at home.
!chuds they literally admit parents aren't fit to raise their own children without a degree.
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The issues with schooling is that schools are miserable Kafkaesque prisons where conformity is enforced by violence, and that's at the "good" schools.
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It's just taxpayer-funded daycare and social training disguised as "education". If we dismantled the whole mandatory education system, how would kids become sufficiently used to taking orders from dull bureaucrats to be able to be effective in the workforce?
Mandatory education beyond teaching very basic reading, writing, and math is useless in the age of the Internet anyway. Kids who want to learn don't need schools. Kids who don't want to learn won't get helped by schools.
I think that we should have taxpayer-funded voluntary attendance schools to provide education in basic reading, writing, and math to kids whose parents can't or won't teach them those things. We should also have taxpayer-funded schooling for helping developmentally disabled people.
Beyond that? Nah. 99% of kids have Wikipedia in their pockets. And, say what you will about Wikipedia, it's better at teaching than some idiot who forces kids to sit in a room for 8 hours a day.
I'm about to get longpostbotted, aren't I?
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Having the government forcing it's Education department to make all their syllabus free and accessible would be nice. Seeing publishers and textbook authors collectively lose their minds would be very satisfying :3
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I'm shocked at the number of people who think taking beatings at school is "just part of life". I pulled a knife when 3 guys cornered me (3 on 1 = lethal force) and people acted like I was a kitty who took things too far.
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Based knife haver, congratulations on not getting jumped.
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my school memories are being shouted at in a circle, by 10+ girls screaing calling me a loser over trivial things
I'm talking voting against playing softball in gym
or pointing out that Heather was lying about having a boyfriend
or saying David Tennant wasn't hot
or saying One Direction sucks
Very rarely would they resort to physical violence (except that one girl ) but they liked to do their "circle and shame" thing and play bizzare mindgames where they accuse me of eating some hello kitty eraser I've never fricking seen in my life-- and just stand in a circle shouting about how it MUST be me because i put a pencil to my lips once and I NEED to own up to it and buy some girl i didn't know a new eraser
The funny part is when during their witch hunts, THAT psycho girl will start huffing and puffing and squaring up like she's gonna try to drag me by the hair again and they're all like "McKayla!!! NOOOO! You'll get (us) in trouble! STAHP!"
what the frick πππ
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I'm so glad I was given unsupervised access to the internet as a child. I was such a piece of shit to bullies that they didn't even want to bully me
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when i got access to the internet I learned that the dollar would collapse unless the US abolishef the federal reserve started using gold coins
I became such a doomer that it removed me from social circles entirely. I no longer cared about looking cool or making friends... or anything really. Why vote on what to play in gym when voting doesn't matter as an adult and hyperinflation is coming?
As a result of my despondancy and occasional rants about Keynesian economics, bullying was greatly reduced. I knew the TRUTH
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oh I didn't learn anything like that lol I just learned how to piss people off then I aimed that at people I didn't like
Not a lot of people were using the internet much then so I had a pretty nice advantage
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literally me but it was from watching 2012 (2009)
I thought the world was going to end in a few years so why bothre
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Foid moment.
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!foidmoment
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Are you a foid or did u just get monged by them?
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Should have pulled a pistol and capped that b-word
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Public schooling is feminized.
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