Reply #178: It's not abuse to subject your kids to the Dead unless you don't get them high first.

[BurtWorm]

;-)

Seriously, I'm certainly not arguing for the state to prosecute parents for teaching their children stupid shit. I'm not arguing for the state to put homeschooler's in foster homes. I am arguing that the state is hypocritical, even immoral, when it urges "standards" for children in its public education system and excuses from those standards only those children whose parents want to fill their heads with shit. We can all laugh at the dumb hicks and look the other way as they pour rot into their children's heads, write it off as their right to be stupid and free to make their kids stupid too. But then *what* are those standards for again? Why don't we just let all parents fill their kids' heads with stupid shit? Why educate any kid on the public's dime? This is a serious question.

Do individuals have a right to learn science? Do they have a right to learn personally and socially enriching critical skills? Or is that something we want to trust completely to accident? Is education just glorified babysitting/daycare? (It resembles that more and more.) Or is it a person's right--not just the right of parents' for their kids, but a kid's right?