[extropy-chat] better versus different in education

[Al Brooks]

It strongly appears it would be best to terminate public ed and have private & homeschooling exclusively. Yet it can't be said the situation would be better but rather merely different. Schools would be safer, there's no reason in a nation that isn't a third world cesspool to have schools where a not inconsiderablre number of students bring knives, chains, whips, and thumbscrews into or just outside school buildings.
  But would test scores and the immeasurable be improved? Depends where.-- would inner city schools be improved? Can't say for sure.
  And then there is the question of what private schools do to the students' minds with religion, even if the religious orientation isn't anything like fundamentalism. Do students need to be inculcated with images of angels, avatars, hobbits, elves, and wicca? Doesn't there already exist enough Harry Potter, comic book heroes, and so forth in childrens' minds?
  But I want the plug pulled on public schools. Let's start anew. Change it or get off the pot.




		
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