Your Child Is Not State Property - Ayn Rand Institute Op-Ed

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The California decision that held homeschooling illegal violates parents' right to control their children's upbringing.
An op-ed by Thomas A. Bowden, an analyst at the Ayn Rand Institute.
Print version available at http://www.aynrand.org/yourchild

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[RobertMOdell]

@UltraConservative298 Oh, I agree that vouchers are a social welfare program. Can we agree to put aside the question of welfare for now? My point is simply that currently, government both PAYS for education and IMPLEMENTS education. A voucher system would replace public schools with a private education economy. Public school teachers could be re-hired and then face competative employment like everyone else and this would lower the overall cost to society and increase quality.

[UltraConservative298]

@RobertMOdell Vouchers are no different than any other involuntary transfer of wealth. Welfare is nothing more than theft and has the opposite affect of its intention. School vouchers would be a huge burden on the economy and would cause school prices to rise. What we need is a complete hands off approach so that private schools are not burdened with unnecessary costs and can keep tuitions low. School vouchers would be as destructive as any other welfare program.

[RobertMOdell]

@UltraConservative298 We need a student voucher system so that students can spend them whereever they want. Just as we have food stamps and not public grocery stores.

[rehwr]

@rehwr GED damn keyboard!

[rehwr]

I learned more in my GD class than I did in Public School!

[UltraConservative298]

Government run education is an inherently corrupt system. It must be abolished. We need separation from education and state.

[xXvolhvXx]

Just a little remark. “Of the father and mother who created that child”? (2:53) No offense, but with this phrase you created the potential to offend adoptive parents, and especially gay adoptive parents, who are obviously not “mother and father”.

[xXvolhvXx]

@logtype47 Yes, she did. So what? That's a not-so-mature example of argumentum ad hominem.

[logtype47]

It amazes me how these mindless free market dupes continuously yank from Ayn Rand's dusty utters. This morally bankrupt hypocrite secretly applied for social security and used medicare to pay for her cancer treatments.

[markgg1]

@StudentOfObjectivism Anyway Im off to the pub, will reply tomorrow. Interesting talk for sure.