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0 pointsguard-of-terra9y ago0 comments

> I genuinely believe that home schooling shouldn't be allowed

Maybe we should just give kids to bullies to use as slaves? Probably auction them.

(School was unarguably the worst period of my life, period. Bonus points for being blamed for that even later on, when affluent and successful)

(Nobody ever blames bullies for being ones. They were "just kids". Now you - you do get blamed for having been bullied)

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gambiting9y ago

It's like saying that someone broke your arm at school,so maybe we should break arms of every kid at school. This would never happen with home schooling!

My point is - these two are unrelated. I say home schooling shouldn't be allowed, you say you were bullied at school. So is your point that everyone should be home schooled?

I mean....bullies are usually bullies because they have shit parents who don't care about their kids. Do you think that home schooling is the answer here?

guard-of-terraOP9y ago

My point is: You should be able to shield your kids from that shit. You should be able to take them home.

I don't care about bullies, and the fun thing is: most kids are bullies when push comes to shove.

new2999y ago

With respect, the problem is that you are both using gut reactions and anecdotal personal experience in order to determine the correct government policy.

You could approach it from a civil liberties angle. But if you're really interested in what would be best for the population overall, perhaps try and cite some data? It took me 5 minutes of Google searching to find some interesting results...

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