Ok, that’s rational. I don’t know about “easy attention”: I can’t speak for anybody else here but for myself…
..i was following the school voucher programs since the mid 1990s when I first became aware of them. While I knew they had a right wing religious push – and a particular odd brand of christianity at that — I supported school voucher programs and advocated for them BECAUSE of the potential of montessori schools, “forest schools (outdoors programs), democratic schools like Sudbury where all the kids vote and they work hard at a democratic process, Summerhill type schools where the teachers are there as available but the kids are truly self-directed (probably the most individualist school I’d heard of and the first that got 14 year old me’s attention — I read that thick Summerhill book cover to cover, amazed that that ever existed).
But I underestimated the power of what 1990s me saw as a “peculiar brand of christianity” that mixed up business religion and politics and america. I had no idea how wealthy and powerful it was.
But I had a growing disillusionment with voucher type programs during that time as well because I watched scam schools start up, lie about attendance and shut down, one after another after another in state after state after state while REAL kids and families got screwed with worthless paper diplomas or 1/2 finished credits nobody would take.
SO there needs to be a structure in place, guidelines and yes – regulations – to prevent scammers from scamming. Cavaet Emptor is fine for a lot of things but I can’t provide cover for scammers.
As far as public schools go? They serve a valuable purpose and there’s a lot of restructuring needed. I understand the anarchist desire to blow it all up but vacuums are filled with surrounding materials.
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I just know it’s not possible to work for everybody and it can’t be forced upon everybody.
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