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Right, and this is an unsolvable problem.
No matter what you learn in life or how, there will be some things you will not be exposed to and-or learn.
Most public education is so severely limited, that it's a governor on your brain right from the start.
It's like corporations... blind to anything outside their walls. Schools are the same way.
Just look at the history of computer science for ready examples of when people fail to learn anything outside their own little world.
You sound like a speaker for the NEA.
Why do you buttume that home schooling will not teach those things? I'll grant you that a lot of people don't know how, but I've seen too many counter examples to make a blind indictment of the idea.
I know of people who teach at home and cover *MORE* than any local public school does, and do a better job. Same for private schools, which have consistently higher standards than any of the public schools around here.
That's the point and the theory, but not always the practice.
There is also a huge mission creep here; where what was a search for portable guns were extended to knives, and then to mundane tools. The cost to society goes up dramatically. In such...
The problem there is everyone fights about how it should be done.
Some people get fed up with the fight and send their kids to private schools of their choice, or teach them at home.
Like I said, formal-public education doesn't always cover those things.
If as a parent, I can cover things a public school cannot, then why send my kid there to get an inferior education?
You aren't making a good case at all.
A parent can send his kid to many places to get a wide variety of experiences.
If instead they follow public education, they send their kids to *ONE* defined school for their area.
That gives kids far less variation than they would get by going to various activities scattered around a region.
That individual situation might, but not the idea as a whole.
Just like with formal education, it depends on the teachers and the policies.
It is foolish to think that parents will be garanteed to be more limiting than a school. Many schools are like parents but with ten times the bias and prejudices, or worse, they are socially engineered nightmares.
But that's just plain not true. After all, it precludes learning by experimentation, as well as the not...
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