Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

[Matthias Julius <lists@julius-net.net>]

"Roberto C. Sanchez" <roberto@familiasanchez.net> writes:

> Matthias Julius wrote:
>> "Roberto C. Sanchez" <roberto@familiasanchez.net> writes:
>> 
>> 
>>>Matthias Julius wrote:
>>>
>>>>Curt Howland <Howland@priss.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>For $200, you can get the Robinson Curriculum, a complete K-12 home 
>>>>>study kit, except math books. Math books are $50 each, new, approx 
>>>>>one per year depending on student speed and aptitude of course.
>>>>>
>>>>>So even at the slowest, full 13 years worth of math books and the rest 
>>>>>of it, is $850. Total. And you get to resell or reuse the math books.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>How do you do that when you have to go to work?
>>>>
>>>
>>>How do you do it *now* when you have to go to work?
>> 
>> 
>> I send them to school?
>> 
> Then that's what you would do with private education.

I thought you were suggesting home schooling.

> Yes.  Please see my previous comments about the Postal Service as an
> example of how this *could* work.  I still maintain that all private is
> the way to go, but there are other ways it could work.  As long as the
> proposed method doesn't involve forcible redistribution of wealth, I am
> all for it.

I'm afraid it would not work without it.  Do you want to base the
education of children who's parents can not afford to pay for the
education of their kids on voluntary redistribution of wealth, on
charity?  Or how do you think it should be paid for?

Matthias