So you’re a bad person if you don’t send your kids to the failing public school system. And since my wife and I plan to home school, I guess we’re basically Hitler.
I find people either care for the individual and have little regard for this collective we call “humanity,” or you care for humanity and have little regard for the individual. I think it’s pretty easy to see what side Allison Benedikt is on with her arguing how you shouldn’t worry about your kids being in a mediocre school since it will help fictional children generations from now. Thus, is Allison Benedikt a soulless, fascist monster? Basically. But we’re used to living around such people; we just need to make sure they’re powerless — writing an article for Slate every now and then for public ridicule and nothing more. To have someone like her have any power over your children (and you know she’d make public schools mandatory if she could) would be unthinkable.
And if you want to help the collective good, punch a stupid hippie. Actually, I’m getting near finishing my new book focused on punching hippies; when that comes out, it will be my contribution to the collective good.
Check out Larry Correia’s takedown” of that column. Quite funny!
frank,
since sarah and you plan to homechool, WE get to help, right? 🙂
Entrance to ‘home school’ requires published pictures of babies and toddlers way in advance! (Although, I just can’t imagine Buttercup ‘toddling.’ Frank J. IV, not so much.)
In Allison’s defense, I must note that her suggestion is only for “single parents” with single children. Then she does write quite extensively to explain why she is so stupid. hint: it can all be blamed on poor schooling.
Wait….that article is supposed to be like…serious? That seems hard to believe and I live in Massachusetts.
Lots of rich people send their kids to public schools….in towns where the average house price is inflated to the point those people can’t afford to live there.
Celebrate Diversity!!!!11!!!11!
Today, there is a published article at wnd about German Police storming a home school class and taking the children by force. This is what Eric Holder wants to be able to do here. Common Core when fully implemented will not allow home schooling. It is part of being a “world citizen”. Danger for freedom and truth is closing in.
“But we’re used to living around such people; we just need to make sure they’re powerless ”
Dead is pretty powerless.
Seriously, I should sacrifice my children to the collective so the collective shouldn’t suck quite so much. Someday? Maybe?
He I know, lets let these morons reap the consequences of what they do- just for 5 years. That will straighten them out. Or kill them.
Ireally don’t care which.
Her argument is essentially, “I went to a crappy school, bombed out of college, but I drank with the bad kids, and I landed on my feet, link whoring at Slate” The whole purpose of public schools is to serve the needs of the individual students. Not to give the teacher’s union a reason to come to work in the morning. If they won’t do their job, then getting out of the system is the best thing you can do for everyone. Give individuals options, starve failing schools (and unions).
Considering this self described idiot’s inability to explain how trapping kids in bad school fixes anything (except teacher’s union pension funds), it is plain to see that she has a complete inversion of simple morality. It is bad to do the best you can for your children? She does mention she didn’t learn much, and it shows.