Should Homeschooling Be Banned?

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Yes, the rich should not be allowed to segregate themselves from the unwashed masses.

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Yes, the rich should not be allowed to segregate themselves from the unwashed masses.

That's private schools TNF.

Homeschoolers tend to be a mix of religious conservatives, and special cases (bullied, gifted, disabled in some form etc.)

My bad. Yeah, private schools should be banned too.

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Yes, the rich should not be allowed to segregate themselves from the unwashed masses.

That's private schools TNF.

Homeschoolers tend to be a mix of religious conservatives, and special cases (bullied, gifted, disabled in some form etc.)

My bad. Yeah, private schools should be banned too.

Just prohibiting them from charging tuition and doing selective admission does the trick too.

Why not just have one set of schools and avoid all the redundancy?

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Yes, the rich should not be allowed to segregate themselves from the unwashed masses.

That's private schools TNF.

Homeschoolers tend to be a mix of religious conservatives, and special cases (bullied, gifted, disabled in some form etc.)

My bad. Yeah, private schools should be banned too.

Just prohibiting them from charging tuition and doing selective admission does the trick too.

Why not just have one set of schools and avoid all the redundancy?

In such a scenario the only real reason for private schools to exist would be to provide religious instruction.

And I see no reason to outright ban things when simply setting a few regulations would have essentially same effect.

You should not be allowed to have religious instruction in schools.

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Why not just have one set of schools and avoid all the redundancy?

Why not just have one brand of gas stations and avoid all the redundancy? Do we really need both BP and Exxon?

Why not just have one type of peanut butter and avoid all the redundancy? Do we really need both creamy and crunchy?

Why not just have one baseball league and avoid all the redundancy? Do we really need both the AL and the NL?

I am completely in favor of having one gas company, actually.

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Yes, obviously. But I think banning homeschooling without broader reforms would be treating only the symptoms of a disease of American education.

Firstly, Private and Charter schools would either become public or be shut down. Secondly, the US government would take over the education system for the entire country, and establish a National Teaching service. Teachers would be required to pass a fairly tough test to get their jobs, and then would be assigned to a school anywhere in the country. In schools that perform poorly on standardized tests, the very best scorers would get poured in. Otherwise, positions are assigned randomly. Most government funding would go to schools in poorly performing, poor areas. However, there would still be a net increase in funding to all schools.

Higher education would also be nationalized. Tuition, of course, would be abolished. Colleges would be prohibited from considering anything but College Entrance Exam Scores and GPA (race would optional, depending on the university's choice, but income-based affirmative action would be obligatory). Universities would have a great deal of freedom otherwise- there would be very few restrictions on academic freedom, for instance. There would not be an excessive emphasis on STEM stuff, it should be noted- all subjects are equally worthy of attention.

There would be a good deal of emphasis on erasing the stigma of not having a college degree.
Vocational colleges and Community Colleges would become increasingly important instead.

All teachers would belong to a union, and would have pretty high salaries- definitely enough to propel them into the top 10% of income earners.

All of this would be payed for by a fairly substantial hike in taxes.

This is seriously the best post ever written on Atlas concerning education policy ever.