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Is anybody up-to-date on the topic of private vs. public schools? I've made basic pages about them, but could use more content especially for the private ones, like how widespread they are, how successful, etc., in the US and elsewhere. (Homeschooling is also a possible topic.) Statistics and general...
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I will be a senior in high school very soon, and every year, my socialist teachers spoon feed lies to the students. Most of the students believe anything they hear from a teacher. Whenever I try to prove one of my teachers wrong, I either get into trouble, or the other students just blow it off because...
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[quote user="CurtHowland"] [quote user="Paul Grad"] Some of us who have read a few general histories of 18th and 19th cent Britiain, and who have read some Dickens novels, don't have to rush to Google to re-learn what we garnered with our government-provided reading instruction...
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[quote user="CurtHowland"] [quote user="Paul Grad"] Simply, if these schools were set up and funded on a private level, they would be private schools. All government schools are doing is giving those who do not want to homeschool, or do not have the time, or those who are too poor...
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[quote user="JFedako"] Paul, "I'm a Commie and refuse to pay for my children's education as a human right" is an interesting hypothetical comment in light of plank 10 of the Communist Manifesto, which reads, in part: "Free education for all children in public schools...
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[quote user="JFedako"] Paul, I am back to being confused. I defined government using the words of Mises: the social apparatus of coercion and compulsion. You have created a very different definition. You have groups of people voluntarily coming together in order to provide schools for their...
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[quote user="Tuur"] [quote]Tuur - You should try reading complete arguments before you respond. You claim I demand compulsory education when you say "violence ....(in the instance of forcing citizens to pay for this compulsory education)", yet I have clearly stated several times in...
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[quote user="JFedako"] Paul, Wrong! I know of no state that does not supplement local tax dollars with state-level taxes. And, in Ohio at least, school districts can adopt income taxes or share in county sales tax. The Ohio redistribution system is pernicious, only 7 cents of each income tax...
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[quote user="Torsten"] [quote user="JAlanKatz"] What about the compulsion to fund? [/quote]You mean the compulsion to receive funding. One must actually think about this, after one has shaken his head thoroughly. As a child you are forced to attend Your parents are forced to pay ...
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[quote user="Tuur"] [quote user="Paul Grad"] 3) Pursuit of Happiness --- I think here is where I'd include the "Right to read" and that basic education I have been talking about. It would also fit in under the above two rights. The Right to do anything that doesn't...