Hey Teacher, Leave Those Kids Alone
posted by Protagonist | 10:29 PM 
Dr. Helen, wife of Glenn Reynolds, blogs about too much homework. Read some of the horror stories in the comment section about public schools giving too much homework to kids who are too small.
A "homework" or "no homework" debate dodges the real controversy, which is the government micromanagement of our children through the force kidnapping and indoctrination system called "public schools".
Some kids learn best with homework; other don't. The choice of which method to pursue should be up to the consumer, i.e. the children's parents. Yet our system treats kids as uniformily and involuntarily as prisoners of a jail. And the system is ossified by confiscatory property taxes and child service laws, which make impossible alternatives to the socialist education monopoly.
And to answer you questions: Yes, I'm a Libertarian, and yes I harbor deep trauma and hatred from my schoolyears.
The only good thing about the current system is that it's quietly breeding a generation of Libertarians.
A "homework" or "no homework" debate dodges the real controversy, which is the government micromanagement of our children through the force kidnapping and indoctrination system called "public schools".
Some kids learn best with homework; other don't. The choice of which method to pursue should be up to the consumer, i.e. the children's parents. Yet our system treats kids as uniformily and involuntarily as prisoners of a jail. And the system is ossified by confiscatory property taxes and child service laws, which make impossible alternatives to the socialist education monopoly.
And to answer you questions: Yes, I'm a Libertarian, and yes I harbor deep trauma and hatred from my schoolyears.
The only good thing about the current system is that it's quietly breeding a generation of Libertarians.
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