For those of you that would like to investigate one of the more interesting concepts in educating a child, you can go to this link and read about the
Unschooling approach.
"Unschooling" seems like a pretty radical idea. I'm not against the idea
per se, but I agree that parents need to be more involved in their children's lives and have the financial burden placed on
them for educating their own children.
As a future property owner, any day now, I'm already dreading property tax increases for education - and I can almost guarantee I'll vote against any tax increases - I don't relish the idea of having to pay for a child's education simply because two people decided, or found out by accident, that they could breed. Let the parents have the majority financial burden of educating their off-spring. I do not argue that the community should not contribute to education, but not to the extent that it does now through taxes. I feel it's simply unfair for society to place the burden on people simply because they own property.
Having worked in the public school system for seven years from 1995 - 2002, I know that the bulk of the district funds goes to Administrators salaries who push the burden of running the district on much lower-paid underlings.
