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I simply love it: the sweet irony of a private school that teach that:

According to the article, the students had been building an elaborate "Legotown," but it was accidentally demolished. The teachers decided its destruction was an opportunity to explore "the inequities of private ownership." According to the teachers, "Our intention was to promote a contrasting set of values: collectivity, collaboration, resource-sharing, and full democratic participation."

The children were allegedly incorporating into Legotown "their assumptions about ownership and the social power it conveys." These assumptions "mirrored those of a class-based, capitalist society — a society that we teachers believe to be unjust and oppressive."

It is interesting if that is how they feel about the tuition they are charging (which isn’t cheap).

And by the way I wasn’t mocking when I wrote that I like this. I obviously don’t like the idea of teaching children that private ownership is unjust and oppressive. However parents has the right to educate their children according to their values.

It is simply impossible, and highly undesirable, for public school system to accommodate the wide range of values and beliefs. Moreover, the idea that the state should force one set of values over the others is unjust. Since home schooling is not a practical solution for most people, and probably a bad idea anyway, private schools offering enough variety for parents to choose from. Some parent will choose religious schools and some will choose "Hilltop Children’s Center" which will teach their children that the money their parent pay for tuition is evil.

One might argue that the solution of private schools is only possible to people who can afford the tuition, and many people will not be able to choose at all. But can they really choose now? Can someone honestly claim that the inner cities public Scholl offers the same level of education as the public school in the wealthier suburbs? Isn’t a school vouchers solution better than protecting a failing system 

 

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Written by Rogel

February 28th, 2007 at 9:44 am

Posted in The Free Market


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