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In reply to the discussion: Where do you stand on homeschooling? [View all]TheKentuckian
(25,710 posts)I think public school should be the only legal primary education, any home or private schooling would be during free time.
No lifeboats, no alternatives, no running away and doing for your's while society burns, no wealthy communities funding their own little castles because I'd end direct local funding and redistribute evenly.
I'd force poor, rich, liberal, conservative, rural, and metro to share the exact same burden and to act like stakeholders.
I'd defang local school boards and make them advisory committees to a national curriculum clearinghouse. I see no case why a child in Iowa doesn't need to know exactly what a kid from Jersey needs to know. In fact, global standards would seem to make more sense than local ones considering the job competition once school is completed. The advisory group could have influence on creating local history and civic courses to fill in the blanks in each community but even that would be based on national standards.