alt.education

On Mar 11, 5:26 am, vaselectro...@gmail.com wrote:
> as an outsider to american society homeschooling seems an absurd
> practice to me. The purpose of public school should be to help
> children to learn how to socialize with their classmates, despite
> their differences. If the educational system has flaws, the solution
> is not to isolate kids from "traditional" educational environment but
> to "build" a new educational system based not on "good citizenship,
> patriotism and loyalty to the state" but on "freedom, collaboration
> and connectivity". Since there are so many homeschooling kids why
> don't you (the parents) try to find a common ground and create a
> "grassroot type" of educational system?

Well, there is the larger question of what business the
State has with children, such that children must be
forced into some sort of institutional processing plant.
The present school system is supposed to be a
descendant of the Prussian school system via Horace
Mann, and the intent of the Prussian system was
precisely to build a strong, unitary state through the
universal training and indoctrination of young people.
The form of school there was at least consistent with
the aims of the Prussian ruling class. But the U.S.
is a different country with supposedly different
principles.