41 sats \ 33 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 23 Jul \ parent \ on: Punishment is a Public Good econ
I don't think most people retain any significant amount of knowledge from government school. You can basically see that in how kids who are unschooled often outperform kids who went to government school.
We judge investments on their return. If people don't measurably advance their knowledge because of government schooling, then it's an investment with a terrible return. For $20k you could pay for many hours of private tutoring. You have to think about what those resources could otherwise do.
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If only kids were actually learning those things, beyond what they would learn on their own.
Education is great. School sucks.
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Schools are one way to implement education. Homeschooled kids outperform government schooled kids for much lower costs.
You can assert the necessity of government education all you want, but it doesn't make it true. Unless you simply mean the daycare function of schools and the facade of learning are needed to maintain society in its currently degraded form, because then I'd agree with you.
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it's not right to waste taxpayer funds
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Many students are deficient in math and reading based on their test scores
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You can basically see that in how kids who are unschooled often outperform kids who went to government school.
Unschooled or home schooled?
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Im pretty sure he is talking about homeschooled.
Because people that are unschooled rarely succeed in life.
I might be wrong, but that was my impression.
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I think so, to, but don't want to assume.
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No, I'm talking about unschooling, which is a semi-specific form of education. To my knowledge they don't do much worse than kids who go to government school. Maybe they rarely succeed at a high level, but that's true of government schooled kids, too, and for vastly greater cost.
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Interesting.
I am going to have to do some research on this.
I have never heard of unschooling before.
@TNStacker you?
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No. Reading now.
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Then you are both about to surpass my knowledge on the topic. Let me know what you learn.
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Reads like a form of homeschooling to me
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Yes, it's a form of homeschooling, but most homeschooling isn't unschooling. Also, I suppose it doesn't have to be done via homeschooling.
It's sort of like how a square is both a rhombus and a rectangle, but in general rhombuses are not rectangles.
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I get what you're saying, but I don't think it is quite right. Unschooling is a form of homeschooling, so Homeschooling isn't necessarily unschooling, but unschooling is homeschooling.
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I might have had a misconception about it then. I thought it was strictly an education methodology that hypothetically could be done by a private un-school or even a government un-school.