#17
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by flockofseagulls104 » Thu Apr 28, 2022 7:34 pm
Bob78164 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 28, 2022 3:50 pm
BackInTex wrote: ↑Thu Apr 28, 2022 3:47 pm
jarnon wrote: ↑Thu Apr 28, 2022 3:33 pm
Really? You want your kid's teachers to be the ones to help your kids find personal meaning and purpose? Or the school board directing the teacher. Or the state legislature or Heaven forbid, the Dept of Education. Just hand off one of the most important things a parent should do to a governmental institution? O.K. Not me, not my kids. Teach them math, reading, how to write, some history, etc. Who they are, what they become, how they fell about themselves....that's my job as their parent.
Yeah, I realize there are a lot of parents out there that don't do what they should raising children but that needs to be address at the cultural level, not excused and taken on by government.
That's a recipe for letting kids fall through the cracks.
If the parent is active and involved in the kid's upbringing, I really can't believe it's at all likely that any teacher will have more impact on the kid's values than the parents would. Peers, yes, but not teachers. --Bob
bob, we'll never have your utopia where everything is perfect.
The most repressive and ugly cultures the world has ever seen have begun with some idea of a utopia. To get there, you have to eliminate everyone who doesn't accept that utopian vision. Sort of like you want to eliminate, I'm sorry, render irrelevant, the political party that opposes yours.
We have to accept that our culture will never be perfect. There will always be problems. Our goal should be to make those problems the exceptions, and deal with them as such. Maybe some kids will slip through the cracks. We have to try and make those as few as possible and help them when we can. But no government program will fix the problem. It will only make it worse or cause other, unintended, consequences. We have seen that over and over and over.
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