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[The Straight Story]

12. Sadly, to some folks here, home schooling is just plain wrong and evil

Since we are not forcing all kids to learn the same things.

our politicians are bought and paid for by lobbyists. Our schools are more and more a product of that. Our kids are becoming pawns in a game and those that don't want their kids in that game are suspect.

We want all kids to have the same standards - and then we sit by while such standards are not set by people in education but are dictated to them by industry.

Thinking for yourself, outside of the box, is wrong - we need the government and those funding it to control it all (because, well, they know better than us citizens what is best for our kids to learn).

From the time I was a kid until now I think every single politician I have heard has said they were 'fixing education' - I am 47 now, how has that whole fixing things worked out?

Just like with everything else - guns, terrorism, sodas, etc and so on - we get told there is a problem and others can fix it if we just supply more money and less freedoms.

Funny how so many in America have had good educations, innovated, etc through all these years where we were told things were broken and others would fix them for us.

Now we have stupid standardized testing (which both republicans and democrats hated back in the 90's and early 2000's depending who was in office), schools they say are worse than ever and need even more fixing, and so on.

Stop trusting the politicians and corporations and start trusting your local teachers. And just because some home school does not mean they are rw nuts, it might just mean they are tired of their kids being used by others for political purposes and for an experiment.