Education Part I – Remastered

4 Responses to Education Part I – Remastered

1. Ezra Taylor says:

   September 21, 2009 at 1:18 am

   Just one more example of the evils of government schooling

   http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=110248

   “A homosexual advocacy initiative claims that over 250 California schools have registered to show their students a curriculum of films that encourages teens to rethink their sexuality, society and even religion. “

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2. Paul Olsen says:

   September 21, 2009 at 6:06 am

   Great discussion!

   Keep up the great work!

   -Paul

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3. Anne says:

   September 23, 2009 at 1:29 pm

   Hey guys, love the podcast, love liberty, but there were a few errors this time. In 1647, Massachusetts required every town to run a grammar school and fined parents who didn’t send their kids to it. That is why Massachusetts had 99% literacy rates as a colony. Their success was the main reason people campaigned for compulsary public education in the mid-1800s. It didn’t take long, however, for the quality of such a system to decline as parents lost more and more control over the schools to the government, which quickly began to flounder under the demands placed on it to be “fair” as it educated children from widely different backgrounds together as if they were all the same. After 150 years of trying, they still haven’t managed to get it right, which to me says a great deal about how WRONG it is to keep beating this dead horse. Parents need to be able to educate their own children, either themselves or by establishing schools with others with similar needs. It takes patience, but that is a virtue we need to cultivate, not write off as an impossibility. And it takes money, but not as much as you might think. We homeschool 2 kids for about $400 a year. Far less than we paid in property taxes that are taken to pay for the schools now.

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4. Jeff Tigey says:

   October 13, 2009 at 5:35 am

   I know several families that home schooled their kids and they had very high SAT/ACT test scores. It can be done. One thing missing was team sports, but in most cities there are opportunities for that too. (Not in Las Vegas, though) There are churches that run schools. Davis CA has them through 9th grade and Woodland has one church run high school. LDS members could do the same.
   The most important thing to remember is that education is the parent’s responsibility, not the school district’s. Public school is no more than a tool for the parent’s use. The rest is up to the parents.
   And, LDS kids are a positive influence in public schools. Teachers would miss them if they pulled out to start private schools.

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