Take the state out of the schools!!!!!

Basically, you suggest that education be carried out by private organizations?

The problem with expecting most parents to be able to teach science is that a lot of Americans, including science teachers don't seem to know enough about science.

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Easy availability of guns in the US?

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Mass school shootings have occured in EU countries that aren't so armed to the teeth. (Germany, and I think, the UK)

Normally in our culture if one parent stays home it is the mother. However I know families where the father stays home to raise the children and the mother works. The system seems to work just fine.

I don't know why American crime rates are so high. But I think that if we took the guns away knives would just become more popular -- and it would offend a tremendous number of people who really appreciate gun ownership, most of whom are responsible enough.Plus I suspect that the gun culture would just encourage a huge black market gun trade, so that criminals are well armed and the average citizen isn't.

Duplicate deleted.[This message has been edited by gene90, 01-01-2003]