Private and Home Schooling Isn't Necessarily Better than Public Schooling (rant)

[Javaman]

12. The single main issue I have with privatizing schools is...

the lack of a unified standard.

Suppost all the schools were privitized in Colorado Springs. CS is a well known christian fundimentalist area. They will be setting their own "standard" for what kids will learn. They will set the curriculum, they will grade the tests, they will be the ones to require this or that. More than likely, prayer in the class room would be a requirement.

Further, suppose whole states who choose privatization with a massively skewed curriculum to the right becomes the norm (the same goes with the Left), what then? Do these newly indoctrinated pupils who then become adults buck the entire system of education by spewing bullshit they were "taught" by corporations and parents with a religious agenda, by then declaring what they believe is true and it goes against their core belief to be part of a Union that espouses the theory of evolution? Or that the earth revolves around the sun? or there are no such thing as witches (in the classical puritanical crazy sense)?

And as a result secede.

It's not all that far fetched given the long term planning both the religious right and the right wing are known to do.