• Jayb151@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Actually, education and health are the 2 things I think the government should take care of in a serious way. That said, I still Believe people should be able to pay for alternative education or health care if they wish, I just think I should never see a bill for either of those two ever. Especially for children. Wtf are we doing if we as a society cannot afford for children to be healthy or educated?

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      6 months ago

      the issue is that everyone needs to have equal opportunity.

      Is it okay for parents to purposefully give their kids a worse opportunity for education and health than every other American? (I know homeschooling is a controversial topic, but sadly the vast majority are just dumb as a box of bricks religious nut jobs)

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        6 months ago

        I’m sorry, I genuinely don’t understand the question of, is it right to give a worse education. Are you saying that homeschool is worse? Sorry not trying to deter from the topic, but I might just not be reading it right.

        I will say this in response though, I don’t agree that everyone should be given a completely equal opportunity. What I do think is that everyone should be given a very superior baseline of opportunity.

        Chasing completely equal opportunity seen like a fools errand. But we really should be putting education and health first, unfortunately we just don’t.

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          1. homeschooling: absolutely, because of the quality of the vast number of ‘teachers’ (in the USA). You should read about how batshit insane they are. And lets not get started on the rampant child abuse.

          2. it sounds like you’re trying to confuse equality and equity. But yes, same baseline = equal baseline, which is not what they’re getting in the slave states.