JH> More than that, if  we made education the sole responsibility of paren
JH> then parents would probably take more interest than they already do.
JH> I've heard soooo many teachers say that the quality of a child's educa
JH> depends on how involved the parents are. I'm all for ending compulsory
JH> education not to mention Federal interference.
JH> 
 
         Despite using parents as an excuse for the failures of public
education, I think parents today spend more time with their children
working on higher volumes of homework than virtually any other
generation of parents ever has.  In the fifties and early sixties my
parents rarely became involved in my homework, but because educators
and the public have been immersed with propaganda about prental
involvement, I now spend 2-3 hours a night working with my kids.
I am, in fact, right now at my store helping a 10 year old do a
research project on comparative processor speeds and a 11 years old
research data on the Ku Klux Klan.
          Projects of this scale were not a part of my own education at
that age, but today we are pushing the envelope forward without
accomplishing the fundamentals first.  
         The failure, as I see it, lies in the system, not int he
individuals involved be those individuals teachers, parents, or the
children themselves.  Government operated scholls simply fail to do the
necessary job.
 
         The answer, however, does not lie in ending access for all
children to education, but in where we place the responsibility to
educate and in who we delegate the responsibility to make appropiate
educational decisions.  If we remove government from education and
restore parental choice in education, competition and a free market
will resolve the problems that are resolvable. 
 
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