Chan;

yes it is. i have to live with them, ride the bus with them, work along side them, employ them, be employed by them. kids grow into adults, with the attitudes they are taught as kids. it is in your interests that other peoples kids are taught well.

you will think i am pushing for indoctrination, that my personal beliefs and attitudes be instilled in every child. this is not my view, i think that damages children. but that is often the outcome of home schooling. school is a broader environment.

and what happens to those the market discards ? do they end up living on the street, begging and stealing because they do not have the skills to do anything else more productive ? this is your vision of success ?

parents do not (or should not) cease their responsibilities just because their kids go to school, sure. but if we are going to make it the parents responsibility, we have to know the parents are capable of carrying out that responsibility. often they are not capable of homeschooling.

so its teachers who run the country ? teachers who set their own salaries, who determine school budgets and standards of security and responsibility ? sounds like a paranoid conspiracy theory, teachers with their agenda of domination and submission of all to their will.

i never said it was. regardless which level of government has responsibility, they are not capable of interfering with an individual teachers class or directing what the teacher teaches. teachers are largely independent.

competition is not the issue. you could have a system where schools compete with each other, that might work. but competition between home schooling and school will fail a lot of kids. thats why we built schools in the first place !