[66178] in Cypherpunks
Re: Informal Renegotiation of the Law
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (snow)
Sun Sep 22 23:47:16 1996
From: snow <snow@smoke.suba.com>
To: adamsc@io-online.com
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 21:43:39 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <19960918160153703.AAC88@IO-ONLINE.COM> from "Adamsc" at Sep 17, 96 09:36:46 pm
Mr. Adams wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Sep 1996 17:54:49 -0500 (CDT), snow wrote:
>>> For example, you will not read anywhere that compulsory education laws have
>>> rare. Compulsory education has been effectively repealed by the actions of
>>> refusenicks in both the subject population and the enforcement population.
>> Their children are still getting educated. Not thoroughly enough in
>>some cases, but educated in the basics.
>It has always seemed somewhat amusing that we will have a) a widespread opinion
>that homeschooling is of lesser value and b) numerous studies, surveys,
>testimonials, reports, etc, that show what a rotten job public education is
>doing*. This raises the question of how anyone even remotely concerned with
>their children's welfare could do worse. . . Yet another unexplained mass
>insanity.
I would agree that parents can do as good or better at _most_ subjects
thru about the 3rd or 4th grade, and I do agree that most of todays schools
are shit, however there is one area--social skills--that homeschooling
simply can't compete. Children need to learn how to interact with one another
in groups larger than a family unit. I don't think that homeschooling can
accomplish this nearly as well as the public (or private) schools could.
I also don't think this is as important as, say Math, Science, or
English.
Petro, Christopher C.
petro@suba.com <prefered for any non-list stuff>
snow@smoke.suba.com
