Unfortunately public schools that have a vested interest in making unified student bodies are still divided among sterotype lines. I’m talking from personal experience here. I blame a commercial media that has money to gain by dividing us by racial and financial demographics to advertise products and tv shows.

Both of these and i dare say any corporate infiltration can be filtered out and matched with community involvement. In my town the general store provides snacks and lunches for the students. Small businesses and banks sponsor some programs. And the winter festival and rummage sale (among other events) raise a good deal of money for the school. The school is filled with parent volunteers and helpers as well.

In my small and rural California town, we could do California citizens a service by showing how this stuff and things Douglas is suggesting can be done and not just for the benefit of the schools, but the whole community.

Some people are going to feel a little anxiety akin to the sensation of “Letting Go” if you can imagine a visceral reaction to floating about in unincorporated space. But quite a few people who already have been “Let Go” might give this a whirl and realise the involvement Douglas is speaking of is really a “Taking Hold.”

It really is amazing how the whole corporate structure has gotten into our heads. I assume i am not plugged into the Matrix, but imagine the education you could get if you really were plugged into a benevolent and enlightened matrix? Free “food,” “family values” and an all you can buy education to prepare you for an all you can produce career.

-mason

It’s not like the private schools are any better. The charter schools are probably worse and the parochial schools wind up having to make the same deals to stay afloat.

I’d really like an answer to this, because it’s clear that homeschooling is just another level of insulation, though I’m not sure if there is a way out of this particular paradox.