Kasz216 on 13 April 2009
| SamuelRSmith said: I'm talking about one, you're talking about the other. What you want is simply unrealistic, and, yeah, I'm going to say it, impossible. For this to work you would need to judge the parenting abilities of every parent in the country. This brings up two problems: 1 - Cost. Imagine how expensive it would be to judge the quality of every parent in the nation. Not only that, but you couldn't do it without constant monitoring of the parents, and so that would be an even bigger infringement of civil liberties. 2 - Lack of standardisation. What the person monitoring the parent considers to be bad parenting would be different from what another person classes a bad parenting. Unless the Government were to draw up a strict set of rules for parents, but, the old civil-liberties bells ring again. And once we get over these two stumbling blocks, you then have to train these people who don't want to be there. What's more one of the huge judgements on whether a parent is good or bad would be whether they send the kids of school. The parent would go through the legal system and training for not sending their kid to school. By doing it my way, we remove the two stumbling blocks and we get down to the same ends. |
In the US we have standardized tests. If your kid is being homeschooled they must pass those standardized tests.
That is basically how we judge the parenting abilities of our parents.
