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I'm thinking about this more and more. I about to get married and who knows soon to have kids. I certainly don't want to subject my kids to this kind of torture that I went through.

You are literally forced to go to school, because if you don't, then you are forcibly taken away from your parents

I'm thinking about [homeschool] more and more.

So what you're saying is you like contradicting yourself? There are options, and you aren't forced to go to school?

Weird.

What are you talking about, I was referring to alternative schooling. Unfortunately where I live it's illegal to homeschool.

But there are private schools or who knows I might even move elsewhere. See my comment below.

What are you talking about, I was referring to alternative schooling.

You replied to a post suggesting homeschooling saying you'd been thinking about it... your other comment hadn't been posted yet.

Your country is weird, but with private school that still means you have options.

So your original lead-in to the article is a false premise. You're not forced to go to public school and they are not prisons, bad experiences notwithstanding.

You misunderstood my post, when I said "i'm thinking about it" I wasn't referring to homeschooling, but to alternative methods how to raise my kids.

At this point I am still thinking. Homeschool is not an option. And it's not like me or my fiancee have the opportunity to teach the kids decently, so we need specialized teachers in each field.

But a private school at this point is acceptable, they have decent teachers there, and I'll only have my kids take the minimum school time required by law. Then I'll teach them to make some money.

My family certainly won't be a student-debt slave type of family. I want to provide my kids real career opportunity.

You're not forced to go to public school and they are not prisons

There were no private schools 30 years ago, atleast not in the nearby area. And you are still forced to go to school, it's just you can choose which one you go to. There is no option to skip school.

And you are still forced to go to school, it's just you can choose which one you go to.

Maybe because in reality we know it's better not to have an illiterate population.

In the past, if you were poor you basically learned what your parents knew. If you were born to a farmer, you were going to be a farmer unless you were lucky enough to find an apprenticeship... at which point you were just slave labor to some guy for years, and hopefully he taught you whatever craft you were apprenticed for.

You view school as prison/brainwashing but in reality it provides freedom poor people never had before public school. It gives everyone basic knowledge and introduces them to many subjects they otherwise might never discover. From there anyone can truly choose what they want to do, but the simple reality is that to do most things you do need to be capable of working in a corporation. To accomplish almost anything of significance you need teams of people. Elon Musk might be designing awesome electric cars, for instance, but he has teams and teams of engineers and scientists actually working on that.

You had some pretty bad teachers, but the funny thing is in my country you hear stories like that from Religious private schools rather than the secular public schools. (Hell, in the US public school teachers are practically banned from disciplining students at all anymore.)

So blaming government for that kind of behavior seems specious at best.

yup..I can relate...I've been thru it three times..
me.
my son
my grandkids.

oh..my grandkids were HOMESCHOOLED.

mighty fine...

The problem is that it's illegal to homeschool kids where I live.

However there are a few private schools nearby that I was thinking about. My neighbor sends his kids there and he told me that the teachers there are very friendly and civilized.

Looks like the psychopaths and monsters are just too scum to get hired in private schools, so they go into public schools with tenure.

then move.
how important are your (soon to be) kids?

I don't know where to move, the entire EU is a Nazi shit. The entire EU education system is modeled after Nazi principles:

The option that I have now is private schools. But I am still thinking about it.

sux to be you.
my ancestors figured that out a LONG Time ago.
they moved.