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THAT THOSE WHO RECEIVE STATE (TAX PAYER) SUBSIDIZED FUNDS BE REQUIRED TO MAKE THEIR CHILDREN AVAILABLE FOR STATE APPROVED EDUCATION?
When debating this question let us remember that the abilities and skills to survive and excel in this test of life are forever ingrained in us by our parents and educators. What is instilled in a child, be it right or wrong, becomes a permanent and lasting part of one’s being. That no matter the direction life may take, make no mistake, one’s childhood mind-set follows him/her throughout life, providing confidence or allowing doubt in every move because of the quality of education and rearing, both parental and scholastic.
Let this debate serve as an informative tool for our officials holding office that they may take a closer look at the laws governing or not governing the quality of home based education and the detrimental effect of inadequate basic standards for such education.
My articles and mission on this subject may be viewed in it’s entirety on my personal site http://www.LifesUltimateTest.com . I also have a video titled “ Ramifications of Homeschooling” at http://www.youtube.com/Dorisanne13 .
Thank you,
Doris Anne Beaulieu
Could you be so kind as to enter this question for debate?
Resolved
THAT THOSE WHO RECEIVE STATE (TAX PAYER) SUBSIDIZED FUNDS BE REQUIRED TO MAKE THEIR CHILDREN AVAILABLE FOR STATE APPROVED EDUCATION?
When debating this question let us remember that the abilities and skills to survive and excel in this test of life are forever ingrained in us by our parents and educators. What is instilled in a child, be it right or wrong, becomes a permanent and lasting part of one’s being. That no matter the direction life may take, make no mistake, one’s childhood mind-set follows him/her throughout life, providing confidence or allowing doubt in every move because of the quality of education and rearing, both parental and scholastic.
Let this debate serve as an informative tool for our officials holding office that they may take a closer look at the laws governing or not governing the quality of home based education and the detrimental effect of inadequate basic standards for such education.
My articles and mission on this subject may be viewed in it’s entirety on my personal site http://www.LifesUltimateTest.com . I also have a video titled “ Ramifications of Homeschooling” at http://www.youtube.com/Dorisanne13 .
Thank you,
Doris Anne Beaulieu
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Permalink Reply by Pierre Bezukhov on -
"THAT THOSE WHO RECEIVE STATE (TAX PAYER) SUBSIDIZED FUNDS BE REQUIRED TO MAKE THEIR CHILDREN AVAILABLE FOR STATE APPROVED EDUCATION?"
Lets not stop there. Whereas an education is important rite of passage, we should not forget that food, shelter, and clothing are also critical to a childs development. Since you feel that parents who are so irresponsible that they fall into the clutches of the government's charity racket are clearly not capable of giving their children any form of necessary instruction, we should also assume that they would fail in any other aspect of child rearing. So why allow them to be parents at all?
As to the supposed beneficence of a State controlled educational system here is a passage from Mrs. Isabel Paterson, author and political philosopher:
"political control is ... by its nature, bound to legislate against statements of both
facts and opinion, in prescribing a school curriculum, in the long run. The most exact
and demonstrable scientific knowledge will certainly be objectionable to political
authority at some point, because it will expose the folly of such authority, and its vicious
effects. Nobody would be permitted to show the nonsensical absurdity of "dialectical
materialism" in Russia, by logical examination ... and if the political authority is
deemed competent to control education, that must be the outcome in any country.
Educational texts are necessarily selective, in subject matter, language, and point of
view. Where teaching is conducted by private schools, there will be a considerable
variation in different schools; the parents must judge what they want their children
taught, by the curriculum offered. Then each must strive for objective truth.... Nowhere
will there be any inducement to teach the "supremacy of the state" as a compulsory
philosophy. But every politically controlled educational system will inculcate the
doctrine of state supremacy sooner or later, whether as the divine right of kings, or the
"will of the people" in "democracy." Once that doctrine has been accepted, it becomes an
almost superhuman task to break the stranglehold of the political power over the life of the
citizen. It has had his body, property, and mind in its clutches from infancy. An
octopus would sooner release its prey.
A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the
totalitarian state."
Another point to be made is that those who are 'receiving tax payer funds' are themselves the end result of a 'State Approved Education'. A lot of good it did them.
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