re: Should education be compulsory?

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I know the education system isn't perfect but why posters on this board continue to act like it is some sort of brainwashing facility is beyond me.

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Learn about the Prussian Model of Education...which is what our "education" system is rooted in.

When's the last time you saw a kid talking about his "entrepreneurship" class? Or when's the last time a student in a public school learned that the New Deal or Great Society were actually disasters, or even had those points of view presented?

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Also, why would you think that most fast food workers would or could teach their child how to think on whatever level you find acceptable?

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Who said the parents would have to teach the kids? You guys really seem to believe individuals and groups of individuals are incapable of setting up schools.

It's easier and cheaper than ever now to get an actual education, yet for some reason, you believe we still need the utterly wasteful government spending tens of thousands a year on each student in order to "educate" them.