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Originally Posted by AnnEsthesia
Maybe because there are a large percentage of parents who do not have the background to effectively educate their children?
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And who are you to decide what constitutes "effectively educate"?
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Or maybe they are too busy or just do not care to do it?
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Then they have no business breeding in the first place! There's no excuse for parents not carrying out their parental responsibilities.
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If you place the burden on the parents, then the children who MOST need public schooling are the ones who will be screwed the hardest.
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It's their burden simply because it's part of being a parent. It's an inherent responsibility of parenthood.
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Yea, I am sure the alcoholic or crack addict will happily spend money to send their kids to school.
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No, actually they won't. But these are people who probably shouldn't breed in the first place.
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We HAVE to have public education.
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Why? Why does it have to be government-run?????
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If you choose to remove your child and pay out of pocket to educate them in another way that meets the standards, all the more power to you.
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Not good enough! Since it's my job to educate my kid, only I should be able to decide what the "standards" of educating my child should be.
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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.
"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.
"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."
The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.
"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."
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