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- From: spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu (Steve Pope)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
- Subject: Re: Homeschooling (was Re: Education and the Environment by Gregory A. Smith)
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 19:49:38 GMT
- Organization: U.C. Berkeley -- ERL
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- This is really is the wrong newsgroup to discuss this contentious
- social question, but:
-
- John McCarthy responds to my post:
-
- >> And what really bugs me is that the people who are killing
- >> public education by pulling their kids out of public schools
- >> have the audacity to blame the problem on "liberal educators
- >> with their social agendas" and other imagined demons.
-
- > I don't understand about "audacity". People could conceivably be
- > mistaken in believing that "liberal educators with their social
- > agendas" are miseducating their children,
-
- Thank you for allowing this as a possibility. I think it's
- more than "conceivable". Sometime in the last decade or so a
- culture evolved around bashing the supposed social-liberal
- educators, and this culture has a life of its own entirely
- separate from anything that's actually going on in
- public schools in reality. IMO of course.
-
- > but if they believe that, what is "audacious" about withdrawing
- > their children. Does someone have a right to these children that
- > the parents are violating?
-
- I didn't say anything about "rights". We as a society have an
- obligation to educate children in total, and parents have an
- obligation to facilitate this in their specific cases. If
- some parents are (my opinion) making their decisions based on
- imaginings rather than fact, then the likelyhood of not
- meeting their obligations increases. Thus they are open
- to criticism. This has nothing to do with "rights" however.
-
- All IMO....
-
- Steve
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