Utah lawmaker calls for end of compulsory education

[kpete]

Utah lawmaker calls for end of compulsory education
"Let’s let them choose it, let’s not force them to do it," he said. "I think that’s when you start seeing the shift."
By Benjamin Wood, Deseret News
Published: Tuesday, July 16 2013 10:47 a.m. MDT

SALT LAKE CITY — Compulsory education laws have resulted in parents disengaging themselves from the responsibility to oversee the education of their children and have caused schools to falter under the burden of being all things to all people.

Those points are among the arguments made by Sen. Aaron Osmond, R-South Jordan, in an article posted Friday on the blog of the Utah State Senate, in which Osmond called for the end of compulsory education in the state.

"Some parents act as if the responsibility to educate, and even care for their child, is primarily the responsibility of the public school system," Osmond wrote. "As a result, our teachers and schools have been forced to become surrogate parents, expected to do everything from behavioral counseling, to providing adequate nutrition, to teaching sex education, as well as ensuring full college and career readiness."

Osmond wrote further that in the current state of public education, teachers do not receive meaningful support from parents, while at the same time parents become frustrated that schools are not able to meet the individual needs of their children. Osmond told the Deseret News that there is a need to shift the public mindset to viewing learning as an opportunity as opposed to an obligation, while also reinforcing the idea of liberty and choice.

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[DirkGently]

1. Hmmm. Rationale for cutting more funding, I'm guessing?

Wouldn't argue with the general point that it would be good to present free public education as a privilege, not something both students and parents are dragged to, kicking and screaming all the way.

But I wonder if that's the real aim here.

[Orrex]

2. As long as Utah men can still have 7 or 8 wives, this should work out just fine

[midnight]

3. Defunding education, overcrowding classrooms & teaching to test are the problem with schools.

And not the fact that education is compulsory and not the fact that parents, who are being blamed, for thinking about education as a day care instead of a privledge institution... What a load of private voucher nonsense...

[CreekDog]

4. if we banned inbreeding, this kind of thing would not happen

[tanyev]

5. The Koch brothers finalizing plans for a national chain of poorhouses opening soon?

[avebury]

6. "Let’s let them choose it, let’s not force them to do it," he said.

So should we let children drive cars at a younger age? Vote? Smoke? Drink? Stay up all night? Get rid of curfews?

Is this guy for real? What an idiot. This is they type of guy that probably wants to destroy all the social safety nets not realizing that a decent education may be the one thing that helps a child lift himself or herself up to independence by adulthood when they live in poverty, have irresponsible parents, and so on.

[Victor_c3]

7. Maybe if more families could get by on a single parent's income more parents could actually raise

their children and schools wouldn't have to do it.

Many parents aren't home during the child's primary developmental years because they have to work in order to squeeze by an existence. As a result, kids are placed in day care and school all day and those people are the ones that have to do the real parenting.

I've seen this happen a lot. Parents get their kids up at 6:00 in the morning, get them dressed and dropped off to daycare by 7:00. Daycare gives them breakfast and puts then on the school bus. After school, the bus drops them back off to daycare where the kids hang out until their parents come by to pick them up at 6:00 pm. Kids get home, eat dinner, watch TV for a little bit and are in bed by 8:00. When is a parent able to be a parent if they are never around their kids?

It's our economic situation as a whole that forces schools (and daycares) to "raise" our children.

[pnwmom]

8. Are you saying that working parents aren't real parents? That's what it sounds like. n/t

[musical_soul]

9. We need to go in the opposite direction.

We need to demand that students can no longer quit school at age sixteen. They have to either finish high school or leave school at the age of twenty-two (or whatever the cutoff age is).

[stevenleser]

10. Logical next step in the attempt to install a modern version of feudalism...

... which is really what Republicans want, particularly the PTB in the GOP. They want all the rest of us to be serfs who belong to the land or their corporations, with zero hope of upward mobility, while they are the modern equivalent of medieval lords.

It's close to that now.

[olddots]

23. you are correct !

since they have no clues about history they want to relive it , I hate these turd maggots more every day.

[11 Bravo]

11. Dumbing down the electorate is one sure-fire way to grow the Republican base.

[LiberalLoner]

12. What is not being understood here is that this is part of the culling process. R/O

If you realize that the elites want most of us dead now (so they can keep dwindling resources for them and theirs and so they can lessen the global warming) everything they are doing makes sense.

There might be too much resistance if they put us in extermination camps.

But we won't fight back if they kill us via economic means. Winners versus losers. Poverty leads to no health care, prison, etc.

But I am quite certain they want most of us dead or at least in prison to be used as slave labor.

[Aristus]

13. One of the reasons for making education compulsory

was to keep 8 year-old kids out of the coal mines. That's what this shit-head wants to take us back to?

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. Thread winah ^^^___^^^^

Absolutely that is what they want

[Trillo]

19. So we got a system where the kids are put in hostile workplaces, which can't be called that

and forced to labor for free.

[JoePhilly]

14. Then he said .. "My parents didn't force me to get no edumacation."

[Sheepshank]

16. The Osmond family is well taken care of...

Aaron, has no idea how his view of the role of goverment (or removing that role) will impact the future of the state where free education is despised and considered another government hand out. Newly elected, he's looking for ways to cut expenses, regardless of how non sensical, without needlessly hurting the elites and those in business *roll eyes*.

[alp227]

17. Osmond? Utah? Mormon?

Aaron's father is Virl Osmond thus making Aaron a nephew of Donny Osmond!

[KamaAina]

22. So his father, who is hearing-impaired, likely would have never gone to school

[JoePhilly]

21. yup ... and the best way to keep the poor, poor, is to deny them an education. nt

[Fawke Em]

18. Dragging us closer and closer to "Idiocracy," I see.

[alp227]

20. Says a guy with a degree from the UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX?

This guy succeeded the homophobic bullying apologist Chris Buttars! look up his name on DU.

According to the Salt Lake Tribune:

Osmond believes in more control for local schools, with each principal acting as a school CEO with complete control over budget and staffing issues. Public schools are unable to compete with private and charter schools under the current system, Osmond said, and need to be given more freedom from district, state and federal regulation.