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

Hi Funkmasterfreaky,
One problem with your proposal is it rests on the assumption that parents are educated enough themselves to be qualified mentors. Even an educated parent may not be well enough versed in different subjects to teach them. In many subjects today, children will be better informed than their parents. Especially in fields where there is rapid development i.e. biological sciences.cheers,
M

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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)

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Germany had a mass school shooting in Erfurt this year. It was the first time that has happened. Gun availability is extremely restricted and getting a hunting license (which my father in law did) requires taking a really difficult and expensive test. However, overall gun violence in Germany is very low with perhaps between 100 to 200 gun crimes a year as opposed to the thousands in the U.S. However, I am not convinced that it is gun availability that is responsible for high gun crime levels in the U.S. since countries like Canada also have huge amounts of private ownership yet have only a small fraction of the U.S. gun crime rates. And it is not like people in the E.U. are somehow intrinsically peaceful in nature considering the last century of violence in Europe or the recent violence in the Balkans.