Hi,
Doesn't a citizen have a right to education, under seventeen, that is the adult age in the states?
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Hi,
Doesn't a citizen have a right to education, under seventeen, that is the adult age in the states?
Rights don't have anything to do with citizenship. Government protects rights, it doesn't grant them, fund them or take some action that establishes them.
Your question, properly asked is, "Do all human beings under the age of 17 have a right to education funded by some government through forcible acquision of resources from somebody?"
Another related question is, "Does a human being under the age of 17 trapped alone on an island in the Pacific have a right to government administered education?"
No.
No.
Edit, Phil beat me to it so I'll take it to the next level.
Parents have a duty to educate their offspring.
Nope, just ponies.
Disagree, amigo. Education is a privilege. If I were to teach basic handy-man essentials, or you the basics of ocean navigation, it would be up to either of us who we might take under instruction. Neither you nor I should ever be required to teach another because of some perceived "right." Therefore, education is a privilege, not a right.
You have a right to educate yourself.
I think it is reasonable to have a government provide services and education can be one of them.
Calling it a 'Right' gets many people annoyed though because Rights are generally seen as something to do with individual human freedoms or Natural Law such as Free Speech, Freedom to Travel, the Right to Self Defense, or being Free from invasion of Privacy. When you think of Rights only as Human Rights, for many people it can't have anything to do with government providing education or things like social services.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYoFPfH_MksQuote:
Why don't you think for yourself? Live in this self made Hell...
Television
The idiot tube
Helps to raise our
Children as fools
Watch the news
They only want you to see
Our awareness is
Limited by network
VPs
Moronic sit-coms
One sided news
Alter your feeling
Give you conformist
Views
Why can't you get that
Garbage out of your
Head
You're better off to
Read a good book
Instead...
Why Can't You Think For Yourself? Live in this self made Hell...
Newspapers
What do they say? Not much I think
When they want
School kids to pray
Getting some facts from
Some daily news
You hate the system
But adhere to its views
Blaming the dead
'Cause they can't
Complain
Shielding officials
Holding them
Above the blame
You better wake up and see
What's plain to see
Or end up a willing part of the machine...
A mans rights end where the equal rights of other men begin. Thus, a man can have NO expectation of entitlement which comes at the expense of forcing another man go give something up. This includes time and wages spent teaching. The expectation of having a "Right to Education" is nothing short of an infringement on the equal rights of other men. It would be no different than demanding that I claim I have a right to force you to spend 8 hours a day raising my children.
Any "Rights of Entitlement" such as Education always come at the expense of Equal Rights of other men.
(For any Feminists, the term "men" and "man" is intended as Human, not male.)
In my state it is in the state constitution . I wish it was not . They do not pay for books though and buses are not always available so it really is not " free" for that individual . It comes at a great cost . Half of all state tax collected and all property tax is used to pay it . At about 10K per yr per kid , or twice the price of the avg kid in private school .The remainder of the state is pretty efficient . If it was removed from the state constitution and abolished I think property tax could be eliminated , state tax reduced by half . I doubt kids would be any dumber overall .
"Education".
So, everyone's just going to let that go by, right?
What part of my "education" involved skipping chemistry so I could sit in the gym and watch scantily clad teenage girls do cartwheels?
What part of my "education" was it when I went hungry most lunches because there was literally nothing to eat but abject crap?
What part of my "education" involved memorizing verifiably false statements?
What part of my "education" involved being held prisoner for almost half of my waking hours?
People need to understand how Public Education serves the Elite:
https://youtu.be/eeEWPbTad_Q
School works better than ever, at least as far as the Elite are concerned. School does NOT serve the interests of those attending.
John Taylor Gatto - The Purpose Of Schooling (in America)
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...g-(in-America)
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
~ Mark Twain