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First of all, making a child goto school for about six hours a day, 180 days a year, for about ten years, is a violation of his or her liberties. Keep in mind that the child has to attend until the legal age (16 in many states), whether or not the child learns anything or could learn it faster or better somewhere else. The government says it has a "compelling interest" in the education of children. This might be true, but that doesn’t give them the right to make it compulsory. If something like public schooling was compulsory for adults, there would be public u
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ing of telling parents how to raise their children. While parents do have alternatives to government run schools, such as private schools and homeschooling, these alternatives are implausible for most parents. Forcing a person who does not want to learn to be present in school anyway may do little for the student, as evidenced by the fact that many people that graduate from high schools across the country can’t read.
Forced attendance also has the effect of letting children who do not want to be in school disrupt those who do. In any case, the parent really doesn’t get to decide whether to send their child to school, they just get to decide which government approved schooling method to send their kids to.
Now one might think that non compulsary schooling or high-schooling might not work in the real world.
In conclusion, I think that making schools completely voluntary is a good idea. Nobody has to go to high school in Japan unless he or she wants to. While the Japanese school system is far from perfect (it has many faults of it’s own), it does educated it’s students better than most American schools. When compulsory attendance laws were first instituted, there was no objection that such laws would endanger the safety and even the lives of teachers and of students who wanted to be in school.
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