Note: Before reading the following arguments, please understand that they are not what I believe. On Wednesdays, I deliberately argue for wrong ideas, challenging my listeners to call and defend the obvious right answer, which is usually far harder than one would expect. This is a summary of what Wacky Andrew will be arguing, not a representation of what real Andrew believes.
~You don’t want your kids to be weird, do you?
~How will your kids have friends?
~Isolation is not the answer to a difficult society/culture.
~Kids need to learn to encounter and handle difficult situations, danger, and adversity.
~Parents are not professional educators
~90% of Americans have gone to public school, and that seems to have worked pretty well for us.
~A common education necessary for democracy
~Democracy requires people to interact with others who disagree.
~Why do you want to turn your kids into clones of you?
~School is a mission field.
~If the best kids leave the system, all the less able kids will lose the benefits of the better kids’ presence in the classroom.
~You are depriving the society of the other abilities you have to be productive when you do something you’re second-best at like education.
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