{"id":90053,"date":"2013-05-13T03:46:32","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T09:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=90053"},"modified":"2013-05-13T03:46:32","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T09:46:32","slug":"how-home-schooling-threatens-monopoly-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=90053","title":{"rendered":"How Home Schooling Threatens Monopoly Education"},"content":{"rendered":"

Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0In an era when everything is customizable, why not customize your child’s education?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hint: Because it threatens the rice bowl of a lot of government employees (unionized<\/em> government employees, the Ruling Class’s natural prey).<\/p>\n

“What about home schooling? You know, it’s not just for scary religious people any more.” That’s a line from Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and it should strike fear into the hearts, not of vampires, but of public-school administrators everywhere.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But it doesn’t, because they provide the votes that make the whole machine run, and the governing bureaucracy is very well aware of it.<\/p>\n

“That first year, chatting with other homeschooling parents at soccer games, picnics, and after-church coffee hours, I found that our decision was far from unusual. Homeschooling has long been a philosophical choice for religious traditionalists and off-the-grid homesteaders, but for the parents we met \u2014 among them several actors, a jazz composer, a restaurateur, a TV chef, a Columbia University physical-plant supervisor, and a handful of college professors \u2014 it was a practical alternative to New York’s notoriously inadequate education system.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

An education totally created by people for whom these hip & trendy urbanites religiously (if I may use so incongruous a term) vote. Savor the irony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Read it. \u00a0In an era when everything is customizable, why not customize your child’s education? Hint: Because it threatens the rice bowl of a lot of government employees (unionized government employees, the Ruling Class’s natural prey). “What about home schooling? You know, it’s not just for scary religious people any more.” That’s a line from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dystopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90053"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90055,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90053\/revisions\/90055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}