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Originally Posted by peter12
No, what I am talking about innovation. I think you are speaking from an emotional standpoint, and while that is understandable, I don't see how it addresses my overall point, which is mainly that we can find more flexible solutions for education than central planning.
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Right, but right at the beginning I said "Don't want to get into the rest", I was talking purely about parents knowing what's best. It doesn't address your overall point because it was not addressed to your overall point. If there are conclusions in your overall point that depend on the premise that parent knows best then I think they'd need to be re-evaluated, but I'm not attempting to do that.
It's not emotional, the biological act of reproducing doesn't impart any specialized knowledge or experience for typical kids, let alone atypical one. Every person I interact with in the system has talked about the wide range of parents, from the supposed experts that won't listen to anyone, to the apathetic ones who won't make any effort to help their kids at all.
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Originally Posted by peter12
Parental input is probably more of a good thing than a bad thing.
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Certainly, a parent probably
knows their child better than anyone else, and a parent that isn't part of the process is just going to end up with poorer results for themselves and their kids, but there's a world if difference between having input and knowing what's best.