This is important. If you think of ending separate schools, do not do it to save money. First of all, you are not going to save anywhere near one and a half billion. It will probably cost more because the real need is to end all faith-based and private education in the junior grades. We have to stop indoctrinating children to hate, to discriminate and see themselves as superior to others in our society.
Now, please do not go all ‘hoity-toity’ on us. You know damn well, that you as a parent have no idea of what your toddler really needs in the way of a full education. You need to throw him or her into the general mix at age four or five and see where they take themselves over the next seven or eight years.
There will be time aplenty if the kid needs special ed. Some kids need some extra help. It is no reflection on you unless you ignore the need.
The kid might be all-important to you but you should realize that there could be a great difference between your ideas of a career path for him or her. You should wait until your child can be part of the decision-making process.
And the one thing, a young child does not need is some ethereal Being to obey along with parents and other authority figures. You can frighten children with that stuff. They do not need it. And why do the clerics want them so young? They know they are impressionable. They know they are gullible. The child will, in time, make good or bad decisions about religion. There have been too many problems caused by parental push to piety. It causes too much upset in families and is hardly worth it.
But if there was one abomination further in education, it is private schools. They are elitist and they are an ongoing threat to the egalitarian society that we try so hard to achieve.
And just because you can afford it, is no reason for you to ditch your kids in private schools. Oh sure, you might be able to convince yourself that it is to the kids’ benefit. What you are really doing is abdicating your job as parent. How well do you know these people you are paying to replace you?
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