Republicans to Obama: "It's none of your business" if high school kids dropout

The anti-public school motif of libertarians and conservatives shows the extent of their crazed ideology and how dangerous and backward it is.

public schooling has worked well for American and the rest of the countries of the world. Ok. weslinder et al. give me some real world examples of whole countries and societies that have prospered without rules of how long kids should go to school. Note: not some anecdotal evidence of educated parents homeschooling super kids or whatever.

I suppose there are some peasant societies, or perhaps tribes in the Amazon where they have no rules requiring schooling and you can be "home schooled" as little or much as you want.

 

I don't recall Obama saying anything for or against home schooling in the SOTU.

 

Common sense is the application of education. You may think it is common sense to wash your hands if you get fecal matter on them, but that bit of common sense is directly related to the study of germs, the invention of the microscope, and our undestanding of diseases. In the long history of mankind, it hasn't always been common sense to wash your hands when you get crap on them.

Then there's the common sense that is just wrong. In parts of this country, it was once common sense that whites were superior to blacks.

In my experience, it is just common sense that anyone who spouts their remarkable "common sense" is likely uneducated, has an inferiority complex, and is trying mightily to shut down that little nagging voice in their head that says they might be wrong.

 

you are arguing with a buffoon.