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Originally Posted by Thor
True, but really like the saying "it takes a village to raise a child" and thats what schools do, even if a teacher doesn't do it, the other children do.
Its like immunization, the more kids you inject with honest, real, useful information on abstinence, birth control, etc.. The safer that village becomes.
I hope that we are beyond thinking abstinence only education works, because its an abysmal failure.
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I think the village means the community more-so, not state institutions. I agree the current family unit, while being very important, is probably not the source of all good in a society.
The problem I have with schools right now is the absolute poor quality of many teachers, even the well-meaning ones are not suited, intellectually or temperamentally, to be good stewards of a child's education.