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Homeschooling hits record numbers

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216 points bilsbie | 1 comments | 21 Nov 25 00:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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rimbo789 ◴[21 Nov 25 22:25 UTC] No.46009753[source]▶
This is another item high on the “in the future we will all have been against this” list.

Well funded public education is a bedrock of fair equal society (which is why the right attacks it ever since its invention).

Public education isn’t perfect but it is far better for individual and society than any alternative (including any religious run schools)

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1. MathMonkeyMan ◴[22 Nov 25 01:37 UTC] No.46011246[source]▶
I agree with you, but I could easily convince myself otherwise with the right context or motivation.

> Well funded public education is a bedrock of fair equal society

First we have to decide what a fair equal society is, and then decide that this is what we want, and then demonstrate that spending on public education helps to achieve this.

People I've spoken to about education who do not see it as I do will disagree with me on all three points.

Colin Powell [valued][1] (paywall) his public school education.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20221108214853/https://www.wsj.c...