Debate: Should students be allowed to choose to be taught creationism?
Side: Yes

"They are wiling to sacrifice some of someone else's individual wealth to preserve that group right."Right, so lets put an even finer point on it:"They are wiling to sacrifice some of their own individual wealth and some of someone else's individual wealth to preserve that group right." Absolutely. Keep in mind that the middle class majority feels much more pain paying 15% than the wealthy does when paying 30% so the feedback mechanism to keep taxes low is pushing down on the majority very hard.Only a small percentage of the population sees taxes as involuntary. Secondly, coercion is not by definition a bad thing. Almost any action humans make in a society is because of coercion if varying degrees.Can they also get back the money they pay in taxes for educating someone else's children, to use to see to the education of their own children? I think it varies by state. I think they should be able to get some tax credit. I was in this situation for 8 years.I agree with New York in most of those cases. Seems like NOT a lot of work to make sure your kids are going to be able compete with the rest of the kids in society. What parent would not want to make sure their home schooled child could read and write near the same level as other children? I think the problem is that before they put all these restrictions in place, home schooled children were great at the niche their parents taught (bible studies) but they failed miserably at basic math reading and writing. The free market works great when everyone is well educated with good intentions but what happens to all the other people? They fail and their children pay the price.My point is that an "expert" should be determined by the degree to which others in the market have chosen his advice to be valuable enough to trade for....Same old arguments... I (literally) have no good way of finding a good mechanic in the market we have. There are not many of them where I live, I have very little knowledge about modern auto mechanics, they all seem to "find something wrong" with my car which is usually very expensive. I only have one butcher (that I know of) and again know very little about butchering. How does one shop for schools? You cant just move kids around until you find the best one? You have to rely on experts or "consensus" from the community (basically a group of experts). I would much rather have a group of experts just tell me which auto mechanic or butcher or school was the best. I still have the ability to ignore them, but it sure would be helpful to start with the one the experts think is the best.I say let individuals choose who is an expert by the value of his advice.I agree but it seems like there are better ways to choose then to try everything over and over and eventually settle on the one that "cheated you the least".Our local school instituted a dress code that is a uniform, in all but name.It's hard for me to comment on this specific case. If it's actually an "expensive uniform", then maybe the citizens should vote to provide uniforms for the poor children? If it's just tan pants and white shirt then the "second wardrobe" seems overblown. Walmart.com sells school uniforms (shirt and pants) for about $24.Democracy is not perfect, but the nice thing is it can be corrected based on simple common sense. When the free markets go off the rails you basically have to form a government on the spot (hopefully a democracy and not simply the will of the richest oligarchy) before you can even start to fix the problem in a controlled way. I can't imagine a population putting themselves in that situation in the first place.Yes, but you choose, on the market, the best class designer.Democracy is a form of free market. They do choose the best class designer (as good as any other form of choosing) as far as I can tell.Even as adults, people have different learning styles.I don't know many public schools that don't recognize and tread ADD. Hey are forced to by law. However, there are many private schools who don't have to and wont accept students with ADD ("Billy is too frigidity for our school."). Public education would be much better all around, except there are people in society undercutting it because they don't understand the ADD issues, etc. There is a strong argument that the only problem with public education is we don't put enough money in to it. I don't see why public schools would be any worse than private schools if public schools got the same money/student as private schools and private schools had to take the disadvantaged children as well as the "smart" ones.Do you mean that the special interest groups should be given authority to insert their niche ideas into the peripheral curriculum, or that they should learn these ideas outside school? Outside of school.