Education should be Mandated in the United States of America

Thank you for your admirable conduct. I believe that this is a productive discourse. Now to the arguments. I will begin with rebuttals The parents are not the ones to fear (with exceptions). Of course, As with any given group of people, There are good and bad parents. However, As the family is the second base unit of our society, I would advocate that we should error on the side of trusting the parents to know what is best for their children infinitely better than a faceless bureaucrat. The reason for this is simple. That parents are acutely aware of what circumstances that they are under, What their child's personality and psychology is, What the worth of their child is, As well as a vast plethora of other factors that would be completely unknown to a person who's job it is to justify their idea of good and integrate it into the lives of thousands of children who are faceless and, For all purposes, Meaningless to them. As for bad parents, I will concede that there is a small group of parents who are not attempting to do the best for their children and instead indoctrinate them completely. Of course, If this be the goal of a person today, They would simply enter the home school program and do this anyway. In order to completely protect against this, You need to decry homeschooling as unlawful, Which is a violation of a parents right to choose the course of education for their child. If you were to ban homeschooling, What is preventing the parent from preemptively indoctrinating their children to discount the education that is received at public school. I refuse to believe, Too, That sharing your values with your children, As long as those views are not in favor of violating anybody else's Rights, Is a bad thing. As for the case of "enslaving children, " I will agree that there are children who are abused or improperly used in a way which violates their human rights, Which is why we have police, Although I disagree with the way our Social Services works. This also begs the question: If parents are forcing their opinions and indoctrinating their children with them, What are teachers doing? I will leave the case of the system already being set up as indoctrination for later, But you cannot really be telling me that a teacher's bias won't come out and won't influence a young and impressionable child just as much as a parent's will. Even if they are getting other signals at home, This can only serve to confuse them into apathy, Ideological shock, Or, Only slightly better and as I pointed out earlier, Force the child who is unable to reach independent ideas of any real substance, To choose between those of teachers or parents. I am not making the argument that homeschooling should be the only education available. I am saying that there should be no government regulations on the curriculum of private schools. Public schools should be one per every 50, 000 children, Because only the poorest should need to attend the public schools. The public schools should be funded by taxes, As it is a human right and that is the only requisite for taxes. If they were rarer, Not as many taxes would be necessary. This money should be spread equally to all public schools, And should be the duty of state or city government. I never claimed that we should defund them or get rid of them completely. I simply said that mandatory attendance to these places which, Using your own words, Are "dangerous for the children. " This brings up another good point, Which is that many of these poor children are put in danger by dangerous criminals being who are forced to attend the same schools. If they were out of schools because they obviously have no desire to be there, Their crimes would at least be more obvious. If schools were, For the most part, Private enterprises, They would have to compete for attendance and, Therefore, Money from parents. This would give them a reason to improve and be better than the rest and continually improve. This would improve the school system. Many parents would also feel that real world experience could be more valuable than a school education and their children would get jobs at workplaces that would not feel pressured to hire educated people and pay better, Which would improve the work force by not only providing more time for people to work, But free up higher payed jobs for those who truly work for them and more blue collar jobs for those who don't work as hard. Again, The public school should be skeletal, Not nonexistent. And again, Any private school would act as a place to leave your children as would apprenticeships, Internships, And jobs. The mandated government tests are a problem in that they assume that every child is the same in the way that they learn. The hours aren't the main problem the main problem is the curriculum, Which I will get to soon. My points are as follows: Free childcare is not a human right. Education is. Therefore, There should be an option to attend public school for those who cannot afford anything else. However, Childcare would be provided through any school, Apprenticeships, And jobs, As I said before. "Educators should be able to say what is and is not taught in schools. Homeopathy, Astrology, Creationism, Religion, Et cetera has no place in schools. " Why not? Not everybody agrees with your narrow worldview. Your "facts" are nothing more than opinions with few facts that you actually understand that are twisted to fit the assertions. Therefore, Schools should be allowed to teach whatever they want and parents should be allowed to decide which school they send their children so that they get an education which caters to them. Secondly, Many schools to indeed indoctrinate children. An example would be the manipulation of history such as that of slavery. Your assertions that "Slavery was a problem that was allowed to exist by the forefathers of the US and by concurrent generations of government until it was quashed by the people" shows that you are a product of a biased source. The reason that our system demonizes the Founders is because they were (with the possible exception of Hamilton) against big government. Although some owned slaves, They were all opposed to the idea of slavery. The reason that they didn't get rid of their slaves were that Jefferson's were inherited and used as collateral on his farm. Washington's were freed at his death. Sam Addams was given a slave as a gift and refused it. They couldn't get rid of slavery (which was started by the Africans, Moved to the Portuguese, And then the English) was because doing so would lead to the South succeeding and the British being able to destroy all that they had worked for them. They put bans on slavery effective 20 years later and purposely put the "Created Equal" clause in because they knew that it was inconsistent and would soon lead to the destruction of slavery. I was also taught that the Founders were evil oppressors, But this could hardly be more false. My point was that it was ended by the people and not the government, Which you conceded to in your argument. Racism has never been inherent in the people, Only the big government supporting democrat KKK and Dixiecrats. This is true in the fact that teaching the historical travesty of the 100 million people who died directly because of socialist governments in the 20th century should make people adverse to it. Why, Then, Do so many people accept it as acceptable now? It is because they are taught that all economic systems are equal. True socialism has been tried. The only ones who use that excuse are people who support socialism but wish to distance themselves from the Nazis and USSR. Nobody should be given the responsibility to make the decisions for thousands of people. Get rid of the board of Education and localize education to improve it. I addressed the issue of Parents versus bureaucrats above. "If you know what is best, Then you should take what educators say and be incredibly involved in your child's education. Contextualize for them. Tell them your opinions. Let them be the judge. This is parenting. " This is parenting by Government while Parents are left to correct the information. The system I propose is much better for society as a whole and would lead to the improvement of America as a Free and educated nation in a world that has not progressed without us since the beginning of our great nation. It would lead to children even more productive than they are now with more opportunity to be had, Which is innately better than opportunity they had and refused to take part of. Governments and faceless "educators" can not be expected to know better than Parents how to educate. This is an Appeal to an Anonymous Authority. Our system can be improved through a variety of means, But giving children an opportunity to be educated, And allowing parents to opt out of education their children, Is to encourage Freedom and to discourage collectivism by showing these children what the world has to offer instead of the stifling and self absorbed world of academia. The mandate must cease to exist so that the Government or educators aren't allowed to indoctrinate children in such a way as to give the child no escape. Once again, Thank you for remaining civil. In Liberty, 1776debater