Timothy Birdnow

This is an addendum to my conversation with my cousin Ellen.

Ellen states:

I also find it ironic that for decades homeschoolers have been made fun of and accused of turning their children into unsocialized weirdos (or flat out accused of hiding child abuse), and told that unless they have a teaching degree they couldn’t possibly be qualified to teach their own children. Now socialization is apparently not as crucial as once thought, and parents are negligent if they can’t teach their children.

I add:

When kids have an incentive to not just serve their time but actually get their work done they are prone to doing a lot more than in school, where they want to just fool around with their friends all day and perhaps ignore the teaching. It's about incentive. It's why the state highway department takes years to finish a stretch of road while a private entity can do the job in a week; there is incentive to finish and do a good job. Public schools are collectives while home schooling is more like a small business.

This illustrates the parasitic nature of public school education; it does little to educate, more to indoctrinate. And most of all it serves as daycare for parents.

The churches need to step up on that last. There are a lot of old Catholic schools sitting vacant around town and the Church could convert them to day care facilities to aid parents who have to work. But it would require the cooperation of the state and local governments, as they would have to allow these places to open as day care, and perhaps waive some of the sillier rules in place regulating such facilities. I doubt that would happen, precisely because it would make public schools unnecessary AND would not serve the ultimate purpose of the quarantine, which is to make everyone miserable so they vote for "change" - a change back to the old status quo.

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