My point is some people like to have information.

Some people don't want facts.

Some people don't want you to have facts.

"fact
noun
plural noun: facts

a thing that is indisputably the case.
"she lacks political experience—a fact that becomes clear when she appears in public"
synonyms: reality, actuality, certainty; More
truth, verity, gospel
"it is a fact that the water is polluted"
antonyms: lie, fiction
used in discussing the significance of something that is the case.
noun: the fact that
"the real problem facing them is the fact that their funds are being cut"
a piece of information used as evidence or as part of a report or news article.
synonyms: detail, piece of information, particular, item, specific, element, point, factor, feature, characteristic, ingredient, circumstance, aspect, facet; information
"every fact was double-checked""

According to the World Health Organization:

"Prolonged conflict and instability have largely impacted on the mental and psychological well-being of its people. One in three Somali’s has been affected by some kind of mental illness, a prevalence which is higher than in other low-income and war-torn countries. Many Somali’s have experienced beating, torture, rape or have been injured for life. Others witnessed horrific violence against family or friends."

http://www.who.int/hac/crises/som/somalia_mental_health/en/

You are absolutely correct that a child with a loving mother AND a loving father is ideal.....I do NOT accept your implication that that is "required" for a child to be properly educated.

I also do not accept you implication that teachers being unionized is a "major" cause of the problems in the public schools.

Even children with a loving and stable mother & father do not ensure that the child will be "properly" educated.

So, it sounds like, since we'll never have the ideal situation you describe, we should just give up on public schools?

Kombiguy: See, you'd apparently prefer the government decide what your children should learn. I prefer that I make that decision. We are at an impasse over who should raise our children.

Nagy: what I prefer is that the average person, who is not very knowledgeable, or knowledgable in narrow areas, cannot make rational decisions about what children need to learn. If the curriculum does not cover something, learn it on your own. That is what libraries and book stores make possible.

Kombiguy: And yes, I do have control over what medical procedures are applied to my children. Or I did when they were children. You're familiar with the term, "parental consent?"

Nagy: You are becoming even weaker than before. This is outright factspeak. You have no control over medical procedures performed on your children other than accepting or rejecting them, and sometimes having a narrow choice between treatments. Rejecting treatment has come under legal question when parents use crackpot religious beliefs to deny the child care that is necessary to save his life, or health. You cannot dictate to the doctor surgically to repair a supraspinatus tear that has not reached the acute state. You probably do not even know what a supraspinatus is. You are not qualified to make most medical decisions, and most parents are not qualified to make curricular decisions.

The less educated they are, the more they are likely to make decisions based on crazy ideas like "She will never use geometry when she graduates, so she should not be forced to learn it now." The limitations they place on their own children will handicap many of them for life.

Keenan: I wonder if you realize that responsibility for school funding and performance rests primarily at the state and county level? If you are asserting that the Department of Education is responsible for damaging student performance, what's your evidence?

Nagy: Very good point: His argument is as follows:

1. The educational system is broken.

2. Federal funding is a negligible part of total funding.

3. Federal requirements play a minuscule part in determining curricula and teaching methods.

4. State and local funding predominate, as do state and local curricular requirements.

5. GET THE FEDS OUT OF EDUCATION NOW!!!!! I MEAN IT.