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CO governor Hickenlooper: Education is impossible without government

Posted on 12/18/14 at 1:23 pm
Posted by HailHailtoMichigan!
Mission Viejo, CA
Member since Mar 2012
69491 posts
Posted on 12/18/14 at 1:23 pm
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Government should do what people individually can’t do, or can’t do well themselves. You know, educating our young people,


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Not only does Hickenpooper revise history (there was a time when the vast majority of children were educated by private bodies), but he basically says that homeschooling is invalid because parents are not good at educating children.

I fear that one day we will be like Europe where homeschooling is illegal and subject to extreme jail time.

Shame on you Hickenpooper, for your government worship. Shame on you for looking down on parents, individuals, and private markets for schooling.
This post was edited on 12/18/14 at 1:24 pm
Posted by Holden Caulfield
Hanging with J.D.
Member since May 2008
8308 posts
Posted on 12/18/14 at 1:27 pm to
Education is not an area I would point to as validation if I were attempting to extol the virtues of government. It can work but it at times fails in grand fashion.
Posted by Federal Tiger
Connecticut
Member since Dec 2007
7938 posts
Posted on 12/18/14 at 1:30 pm to
Guess he thinks Haverford School for boys and Wesleyan University did a shitty job educating him.
Posted by FooManChoo
Member since Dec 2012
41868 posts
Posted on 12/18/14 at 2:32 pm to
Education is one of those things where you get out of it what you put in to it. If the kids (and by extension, their parents) aren't putting in the work, the education won't do much.

Very sad Hickenlooper survived the purge. He's as two-faced as they come.
Posted by TOKEN
Member since Feb 2014
11990 posts
Posted on 12/18/14 at 3:05 pm to
With no government many kids couldn't afford school in the private sector.

Posted by REG861
Ocelot, Iowa
Member since Oct 2011
36485 posts
Posted on 12/18/14 at 3:22 pm to
I like some of the stuff Hickenlooper has done. He's a centrist on many issues ..and he brews beer

But he is so far off here.
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