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.
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.
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.