I don’t see why we need public school. A lot of teachers take this personally, but that’s just further proof that the teacher’s emotions can have just as negative an effect as a student’s. What needs to be understood is that when you force a kid into a government bunker for eight hours, they will grow to hate the authority you try so desperately to shove down their throats. A big reason for this is the math of how much time this gives the student for their own lives.
All of these are out of a week (168 hours)
4 hours- School
56 hours- sleep
(presumably) 4 hours- church
(usually) 14 hours- extracurricular activities
(random estimate) 2 hours- Chores
10 hours- Riding bus to and from school
Note: while it does seem unfair to count sleep, it still takes away from personal time.
That’s 80 hours out of 168, not even counting the amount of time most teen girls spend dolling themselves up. Reason I bring this up is not the argument “It gives no time for their lives” because your restrictions have already taken away possibilities of that happening. I mention this because there is so much time dedicated to school and the preparation for it that there is no real life experience being gained while being dragged by the collar, obediently or otherwise, for the “sake of one’s future” that’s not even decided by them. Now, I have been told that letting teens free to choose what they do would be an atrocity; the idea of freedom in the most creative and passionate stage of humanity is scary, but the kids are making the same mistakes you claim they will fall into even with school. Not to be rude, but it doesn’t seem like your magic schools are preventing anything other then that that needs to happen (needs to happen meaning, talent, creativity, intelligence, etc.). That aside, the lessons in school are laughable at bloody best; you continually say you will refuse to preach, but I have not met one teacher (other then my math teachers, who don’t count because math is universal and that’s cheating) that hasn’t put their own aside of socialist droplets into their long-dried well of knowledge. I have been told time and again that man cannot live without others, without government, without regulation; I have been told time and again that I am being poisoned by the propaganda of every single conceivable source, the ones casting the blame not daring looking in on their own image in fear that they are what they hate so much. But no, I say that they, those who teach falsehoods of man’s needs, are far from what they fear; in fact I do believe that they are in every since what they have wanted to be so badly. But even when all their aspirations of lobotomized youth have been met they still say that the product of this work is not final, that it is not under enough control to be suitable for the future. It should be plainly obvious by now that schools do nothing but what you want them to, but they also do nothing but take away from kid’s dreams so it is time to ask yourself whether or not it is worth it to condemn the emotionally distraught teen’s futures to desk jobs and taxi drivers for the sake of suppressing the passion that spawns the ability to teach ones self.
Tags: anarchy, church, creativity, government, hate, I've had enough, no government, preaching, schools, screw Obama, teens, time
