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Northern Bucovina wrote:

Honestly, I think having schools run by the communities themselves has many advantages but also many disadvantages. For example, more religious communities might focus more on religion and spirituality in school, while less religious ones might focus more on science. Then how do you ensure children will not have problems in college if they are all getting taught different stuff? I think schools should have more autonomy. However, it should not go at the cost of the child's knowledge and there should also be a minimum of everything to ensure the child can have their own thoughts and beliefs. And of course, the teachers should not be biased at all in their teaching.

By offering choice, incorporation of religious schooling is an option parents can exercise alongside a regular curriculum. That religion will naturally vary based on demographic need, and support within the community. Since science was born in religious schools in religious eras, the notion the two are incompatible is born out of politics, not factual information.

The same is true with vocational and agricultural schools, they prepare for different market segments that will ebb and flow with needs and interests of the students. By doing this and removing governmental propaganda minds are actually opened, either positively or negatively, by the individual from their educational and experiential base. This is how happiness is found, finding ones path that also fits the community so a life (or part of it) within that path enlightens, and does not oppress.

Since governments have shifting priorities and never focus on the health or safety or happiness of the individual (propaganda may differ) the community is also disserviced. Never has mental and physical health been so poor as this time of big government with lifetime politicians forcing cookie cutter approaches on normal people. Why would we not take local control.