One more point about public vs private vs home schooling is that I think the socialization aspect is overstated to a degree. Yes it's important to socialize with others, but I don't imagine that poor inner city schools help to socialize their students with anyone other than poor inner city kids, and well-to-do schools only help to socialize students with other well-to-do kids. So as good as socialization is the current system also reinforces class power structures by making sure that poor kids only know how to relate to poor kids, middle class kids only know how to relate to middle class kids, and rich kids only know how to relate to rich kids. Plenty of public schools aren't so segregated but I don't think most people in public schools are really dealing with other people in drastically different walks of life.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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