A Pair of Stories that Make Me Glad We Homeschool
blonde sagacity: Democrats Legislating How You Smell? wcbstv.com - Conn. Student Suspended For Buying Candy In School
Something evident to me, and missing from the commentary at these stories, is that the micromanaging of non-academic behavior by kids at school is not really related to the purposes of a school. If I want my kids not to eat Skittles®, I will keep an eye on that. If I don’t mind them eating a bag of Skittles® every day, how is it the school’s business to interfere? And if I want my kids to smell like the perfume counter at Marshall Field’s, why should the government get involved? From my observation of certain people, heavy scent-wearing seems to be a cultural value for some people. Why should the government become involved in regulating such cultural expression?
The real problem here is that the institutional schools have been surrogate parents for so long, and in such increasing measures, that many people see nothing wrong in having the government legislate little things like this.
To quote the Tick, “No thanks, we’ve got all the government we need!”
