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Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB
I do think the government needs to oversee the education of kids in this country, whether that's through public or private schools, or keeping a close eye on homeschooling. Why? Because our whole society pays for it when kids grow up to be illiterate or undereducated adults who can't function in the real world.
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Is there an epidemic of idiotic home-schooled children ruining society? I see plenty of public school grads and dropouts having this impact.
I agree, society has an interest in education. I still don't care. I don't think that everything society has an interest in mandates government involvement. Plus, your assertion seems premised on the idea that we later provide for people who can't function on their own, and I think that shouldn't be the case either.
Protecting society from itself is not something the government will ever do efficiently, and I really wish citizens would stop depending on it.