Utah legislator calls for end to compulsory education
So, his solution to those issues is to make it optional for parents to send their kids to school. I find it howlingly stupid, but I wondered what others here might think.
One of my dearest friends had a hellish start in life. Her mother tried to abort her at home one day (I'll spare you the details, though her mother liked to tell my friend about them often). When that failed, she often left my friend, N, alone in the backyard in a playpen with a box of cereal. All day, and when she got a little older, she was left for days. No one noticed. School probably saved her life.
And not just because people noticed that she was bruised and malnourished, but because she got an education. Her mother, had she the option and not the legal responsibility to get her child an education, would not have sent her to school. And her hard life would have been harder for longer.
It would, imo, weaken us as a society, as a country, to abandon mandatory education for all children. But am I missing something?
The idea of forcing children to attend school is outdated and should be scrapped in favor of a system that encourages learning by choice, state Sen. Aaron Osmond said in calling for an end to compulsory education in Utah.
"Some parents act as if the responsibility to educate, and even care for their child, is primarily the responsibility of the public school system," the South Jordan Republican first wrote on a state Senate blog on Friday.
"As a result, our teachers and schools have been forced to become surrogate parents, expected to do everything from behavioral counseling, to providing adequate nutrition, to teaching sex education, as well as ensuring full college and career readiness."
So, his solution to those issues is to make it optional for parents to send their kids to school. I find it howlingly stupid, but I wondered what others here might think.
One of my dearest friends had a hellish start in life. Her mother tried to abort her at home one day (I'll spare you the details, though her mother liked to tell my friend about them often). When that failed, she often left my friend, N, alone in the backyard in a playpen with a box of cereal. All day, and when she got a little older, she was left for days. No one noticed. School probably saved her life.
And not just because people noticed that she was bruised and malnourished, but because she got an education. Her mother, had she the option and not the legal responsibility to get her child an education, would not have sent her to school. And her hard life would have been harder for longer.
It would, imo, weaken us as a society, as a country, to abandon mandatory education for all children. But am I missing something?