• Jayb151@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Actually, education and health are the 2 things I think the government should take care of in a serious way. That said, I still Believe people should be able to pay for alternative education or health care if they wish, I just think I should never see a bill for either of those two ever. Especially for children. Wtf are we doing if we as a society cannot afford for children to be healthy or educated?

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      1 year ago

      the issue is that everyone needs to have equal opportunity.

      Is it okay for parents to purposefully give their kids a worse opportunity for education and health than every other American? (I know homeschooling is a controversial topic, but sadly the vast majority are just dumb as a box of bricks religious nut jobs)

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        1 year ago

        I’m sorry, I genuinely don’t understand the question of, is it right to give a worse education. Are you saying that homeschool is worse? Sorry not trying to deter from the topic, but I might just not be reading it right.

        I will say this in response though, I don’t agree that everyone should be given a completely equal opportunity. What I do think is that everyone should be given a very superior baseline of opportunity.

        Chasing completely equal opportunity seen like a fools errand. But we really should be putting education and health first, unfortunately we just don’t.