Re: the requirement that the state *provide* an education

On Jul 23, 9:35=A0pm, "Stephanie" <h...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> I am also flummoxed with the number of children who come to school not
re=
ady to learn.

But I thought you homeschooled - why has this become an issue for you?

> I mean things like having had an adequate breakfast with a lunchbox
> of snack and lunch provided. I mean having gotten an adequate night's
sle=
ep
> at least mostof the time. I mean coming to school free of stress from
> monstorously disfunctional families.

It probably depends where you live. At my son's school nearly all the
kids come to school properly cared for - only a tiny minority come
from non-functioning families, and the school sup****t those kids as
best they can. (Like giving a kid double swimming lessons when his
family had never taken him to a pool).

Other schools in the area have many more social problems. My son's
head teacher had recently moved from a different school and said it
was refre****ng not to have to deal with drunken parents first thing in
the morning.

> If a child is a discipline problem or a disruptive
> influence, instead of going through this weird discipline system that
has=
 no
> teeth (if a student does not want to be there, then sticking them in
> detention is no great deterrent), kick 'em OUT, particularly in the
later
> grades.

If it's bad for society to have those kids *in* school, it's a lot
worse to have them *out* of school, hanging around bored and
unsupervised. Maybe where you live the older ones would be at home
harmlessly doing nothing, but where I live they're out making trouble.
And getting in to trouble - excluding kids from school is the fastest
way to get them into prison.

> I am trying to kick up some sort of different conversation around
educati=
on in this
> country.

Which country was that again?

Cailleach