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Shit libertarians say. (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (21 children)

Maybe not outright illegal, but I think it should be heavily regulated. I've heard way too many stories of kids being raised in isolation and barely being taught even basic math under the guise of homeschooling.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (8 children)

My brother and sisiter-in-law briefly did "homeschooling" with their kids. I put the word in scare quotes because it wasn't what people normally think of when they consider homeschooling. It was actually a private school which the kids went to four days a week and then one day a week the parents guided the kids at home through a lesson plan prepared by the school. The only point of this was that it allowed the school to hire non-accredited and non-union teachers since it was ostensibly homeschooling and not a normal school.

At least it saved the parents money, right? Ha ha nope! Still expensive as shit - like $30K per year per kid.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

Ha ha nope! Still expensive as shit - like $30K per year per kid.

Right, universal education is not a thing in ~~USSA~~ American Empire.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

huh? public school is free

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And underfunded

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

That comes with the territory of not being relevant to short term corporate profits and also being paid for by taxes. Though if and how underfunded depends on the county, since it's usually paid for primarily by local property taxes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I mean it's not free -- it's funded by property taxes in most US states.

States have different ways of adding more cash to funding; CO and WA for example put a ton of their weed tax money to roads and schools