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If ever there were a sign of societal failure to thrive, it's a culture that castigates parents for doing whatever they can to ensure their own children have a safe, supportive, happy learning environment.
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do you mean mandatory institutional learning? and no support for homeschooling?
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The pre-existing unspoken elite social default of regarding it as vaguely selfish to have children at all creeps closer as closer to being openly stated. We’re now at “if you MUST have them they at least have to be useful to our cause.”
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Charitably(?), it's a case of typical mind fallacy? "I want to be sexy, and children (especially infants) are the most antisexy thing possible, thus I don't want them. Surely, other people feel exactly the same, and end up with children due to social pressure or by mistake."
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I wonder about the Twitter outrage vs median opinion skew on this. Maybe if the movement grows enough, someone will poll 'what do you feel about parents hiring private teachers'.
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Ppl are really turning their brains into pretzels trying to figure out a reason that it’s evil too. There’s no world in which relieving some pressure on the public school systen is hurting other kids.
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My understanding was that the objection was more to the phrasing and structure of the request. Creating a small alternate school system with private teachers vs. poaching the 'best teacher's' from the local public school system. Depending on spread between median teacher and
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Utah had a school voucher ballot initiative abt. 15 years ago. I was confusingly called a bigot by an establishment educator for supporting the voucher program. Their argument was that taking kids out of the system was taking money away from a system that 1/
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was already starved of money. The initiative gave money to the school for every child taken out of the school, just not as much seemed like a win to me for the school since they got free money and wouldn't have to spend anything to educate the child. 2/
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At least when primitive people would sacrificing their children on a burning altar to bring rain, the objective was clearer than the speculative advance of equality this sacrifice is supposed to bring.
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