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Education is a parent's/ a community's job. Instruction is a teacher job. If Parent don't agree with the programs (which they of course read), they are free to choose another school or to teach their kids home.

School programs ARE flawed, whether it's science (even math course are!) or non-science. This is a trade-off, accuracy losses against information speed and time spent in problem resolution.

I've heard two years ago that the US is becoming a bit too grade-centric and that problem resolution is not a valued skills anymore pre-college, due to decisions in the ministry under Bush-Clinton-Bush administrations, but my point is valid for most of europe

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>> they are free to choose another school

I wish that were the case, I fully support School Choice, and a Voucher system that will put the money in the hands of parents to make the choice best for their child instead of only having school choice be an option for the wealthy

Vouchers with for-profit school corps?

Yes? and coop's, Learning Hubs, Money for Home Schooling resources, etc etc etc

Unlike many here I am not opposed to capitalism

It's been a disaster in the few places it's been tried. Chile (since abolished) and currently in Sweden. It very obviously causes the school corps to cut costs by various means that have a negative societal impact.

For example by giving undeservedly high grades that upper-middle class seemingly happily accept to get their kids into high-status high education. These grades then conveniently becomes part of their marketing.

An even more sinister example is their willingness to actively segregate their schools to have "easy", as in cheap, students that don't require as much resources (like actual teachers) as people - on average - from less privileged backgrounds.

homeschooling is a choice available too, and i'll tell you one thing: most homeschooled kids i worked with were from poor families, almost always single-income and often with this income being close to minimum wage. Mostly rural (or rather in small, 100 to 500 hab towns).

The context in which i met them was great, and their parent had to be involved to put them there, so i guess i received the "best" examples of homschooled kids in my area, but they did not have any major issue (often missing some in STEM knowledge, but all of them with a logical/creative mind that make learning hisghschool math a breeze, and anyway, our association was there for this exact issue)

I would like to see some of the money from a voucher be allowed to be spent on Home Schooling resources and technology, Provide computers, internet, books, etc all in some way under the same School Choice Voucher system

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