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: :Sam: ……If you want to deal with public schools, you will have to create alternative institutions to deal with the basic needs of those who currently rely upon public schools to meet those needs, the most basic of which is that the schools provide day care for parents who must earn wages during daylight hours.
: DDN: Yes Sam, I know. (We’ve been here before, haven’t we?). I think you’ve put your finger on an equally serious travesty: the proliferation of households where both parents work. But there’s a flaw in your position here and it lies with the word “must”, as in “MUST earn wages”. Why must both parents earn wages?
SDF: To pay the rent! For health insurance! My word!
: Sure there are some families whose combined salaries barely cover the costs of a very modest lifestyle and home for their children. But what I see when I look around are mostly moms and dads that would rather work their ass off for a new Ford Taurus, a bigger house, and lots of unnecessary material crap rather spend some quality time with their children.
SDF: And these are the children who lose because of the insufficiency of the current system. Dismantling the educational system while leaving everything else the same will not improve their plight. At least with teachers you've got a social worker watching the dysfunction of American families.
: In fact I see moms and dads that don’t really even WANT to be moms and dads. There’s an epidemic of parents that, for reason we should probably discuss, crave the independence of a life outside of their family structure and have no qualms about fulfilling those desires at the expense of their kids, especially if it will buy them some new toys. This rampant sickness is particularly noticeable in the wives of these families who get pregnant and have kids but see staying at home with their children as nothing more than indentured servitude or even slavery. Working on their “careers” is often not a survival necessity
SDF: And often it's not a career, and often it is a necessity.
: as much as it is a way to establish an identity outside of motherhood, stock their closets full of new clothes, and compare dicks with their husbands.
SDF: Not everyone in America is "middle class" in the way you depict. Not even close.
: In short, the alternative institution or “daycare” you are looking for is called “At Home With Mom”.
SDF: And the subsequent withdrawal of labor-power from the current economic system will doubtless cause a recession. A lot of folks have only managed to "get ahead" in the American economy despite the fact that average wages are still below 1973 levels, by working more hours and by the entry of women into the paid labor force.
: Can we blame working moms for the mass public school brainwashing of our kids. I don’t know. Parents were still happily sending their kids to school when moms were staying at home. Maybe the problem is just with moms IN GENERAL. What has happened to our women!?
SDF: Maybe they weren't "yours" to begin with, maybe they didn't like the lack of respect they received for their unpaid labor as housewives. And maybe they won't like a return to such unpaid labor for the same reason students resist the unpaid labor we call "classwork". As McSpotlight would say, "respondents, form an orderly queue".
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