The Americans value freedom more. As far as I know, only western Europe considers children as belonging to the state, not the parents.

Many Romanians who moved to places like Norway were shocked to see how children are treated there. In Sweden they have banks of the blood of all the babies since 1975 in storage forever ( https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/PKU-registret ). Scary stuff.

The PKU-registry article you linked explains how one can opt out of having one's sample stored after the genetic screening:

> Den enskilde kan begära att begränsa hur provet får användas eller få sitt blodprov kasserat. Kassering innebär enligt biobankslagen att provet kastas eller anonymiseras

> The individual can ask to restrict how the sample may be used or have it discarded. According to the biobank law, discarding a sample involves either destroying or anonymizing it.

What about the freedom you're denying your child by excluding them from social interactions due to your mistaken puritanical attempts to 'protect' them by home schooling?

I mean, there is no justification. You're actually harming your child. Sure, maybe you're a better maths teacher than the one in the school, but school isn't really about learning such nonsense..

Non-homeschooling is probably one of the more recent developments in education in modern times, but yes, it must be this "super american thing" that can't be allowed. God forbid parents have a say in how their children are being raised.

... Recent as in our grandparents generation or what?

It was normal I think even 200 years ago.

So your argument is, random american parents know more than society in general who define educational standards because... that's how it always was?

LOL. But I mean, yeah. 80% of Americans believe in Angels and 15% of you have passports so why am I even trying.

Society tends towards least common denominator in the American political system, so one means of resisting the damage from that context is more parental choice.

Americans value diversity of thought, so we alloy children to have a wider range of lived experiences when it comes to pedagogy.