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Re:Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form... by ndriscoll on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @04:57PM (#38091271)
In theory, society should be robust to differing beliefs: allow people to segregate into communities with shared beliefs and self-govern. Use higher levels of government sparingly to resolve conflicts and where coordination is necessary and general consensus exists that the thing you are coordinating is desired.

In practice, people have trouble not butting into each other's lives. If we're going to try to force a shared belief on everyone, it should be to fix that.

Re:Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form... by autoexec on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @05:54PM (#38091935)
Segregating everyone into insular pockets of the like-minded just feeds ignorance, intolerance, and group-think. We shouldn't force beliefs on everyone, but we should reject ignoring facts or replacing them with beliefs.

There's a lot to be said for giving all children a baseline level of education based on fact so that everyone understands the world and the large problems we have and so they will know how to work together to face them.

The kids who are only ever taught that the world is 6,000 years old and flat, that women are inferior, that evolution is a lie, that global warming isn't real, or that gay people cause hurricanes are going to be at a substantial disadvantage in many areas of their lives and they will hinder efforts to resolve conflicts, to coordinate when necessary, and to reach general consensus.

Re:Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form... by peyton on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @08:44PM (#38093282)
If we accept that as justification, then we should actually be running re-education camps for adults.

And what if I want my kids to go to a school where they’re encouraged to think for themselves? To be interestingly wrong rather than boringly correct?

I really don’t think the facts you give as examples are that important when it comes to equipping a child with the skills they need for a lifetime. They’ll be faced with a different set of facts later in life anyways. The foundation of an education needs to be a little deeper than “not my enemy’s political views.”

Re:Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form... by judge2020 on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @08:33PM (#38093205)
Society would be robust to differing beliefs even if we had homogenous public schooling, but complete independence in education _will_ lead to underperforming workers and it's in opposition to what a world power needs to maintain its dominance in the global economy in the long-run.