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School Sucks Podcast: The END of Public Education

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Episode 6: Conformity & Compliance





My name is Brett Veinotte and I have worked in education for the last ten years, in a variety of capacities. I am currently the Vice President of a tutoring and educational consulting business in New Hampshire. _____________________________________
I also frequently appear on Complete Liberty Podcast with author and host Wes Bertrand. At the end of 2008, we devoted 10+ hours to the topic of education. Sub-topics included public school reform (aka pointless aka trimming the leaves on the tree of evil), homeschooling, the history of American education, private alternatives, John Holt's unschooling movement and other pedagogical philosophies. For more information about Wes Bertrand's work, please visit www.completeliberty.com [http://completeliberty.com/]

Birthday
Aug 07
Gender
Male
Location
Newmarket, New Hampshire
Political Views
Against violence, theft and propaganda(aka not political)


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Imagine a door to complete freedom, abounding opportunity and greater personal satisfaction... Public education is the lock. This is a show about finding the key.
In my 10+ years of teaching, "school sucks" is perhaps the most common phrase I've heard students use to describe their feelings about public education. But this seemingly bitter and reductive slogan is actually quite clever. When taken literally, "school sucks" is perhaps the most accurate and astute synopsis of the system I've ever heard. Here's why...

1. The twelve-year process of an American public education has a dramatic effect on the mind of a child. When we first enter school at age six, many of our best personal attributes are already in place. We are curious, innovative, unique, creative and hopeful in ways that we will rarely be able to replicate throughout the rest of our lives. But over time, school sucks those essential attributes out of too many of us...and replaces them with predictability, obedience and apathy.

2. The public school system sucks off the productive capacity of hard-working people. The system is coercively funded through taxation. In other words, whether public education succeeds or fails (spoiler alert: it fails) at providing real education to the public, the cost goes up every year. There are no refunds.

The END of Public Education?

1. END: It's over, irrelevant, useless, needs to be done away with. Does more harm than good.

2. END: (As in means to an end) We'll also explore the true intentions behind the system, which have very little to do with real education. There is substantial evidence that its failure to educate is no accident.

Above all, this is a show about what one might do about these problems...

For more information or to leave comments, visit www.edu-lu-tion.com

And check out School Sucks on YouTube at oobagnaj's channel.


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