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Schools are also decaying because parents aren’t the customers. The government is. Same with the police, military and courts. The trade off to user pays regardless of relative wealth is the state taking money from people and then purchasing the services. That makes the government the customer. Which is why those institutions are resistant to change and engage in behavior contrary to what private citizens want.

Laeserin 1y ago

Yes, but it's statistically evident that public services are better or worse, depending upon the local marriage rate.

Married fathers are the lowest level of government and if you remove them from a space, or they pretend to not be there or their presence is impermanent or incommital, everything quickly turns to shit. So, the parents aren't the final customers, but if married fathers dominate the local government, then *they* are the customers and the higher levels of government are forced to respond to their demands because they can wield violence. The effect is indirect.

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Laeserin 1y ago

You can see this in real-time in Germany, nowadays. The higher levels of government are quietly warring with the lowest level, in some ethnic-dominated neighborhoods. The family men will literally band together and terrorize the teachers, stalk the principal in the parking lot, etc. The schools sometimes need cops, but the cops are also often from the same ethnic group and sympathize with their concerns. Ends up 2 indifferent guys against 50 angry ones, so good look with that. LOL

The canteen will be halal. The girls and boys get separate sports. The visit to Dachau gets quietly... delayed. Etc.

The crucifix in the hallway stays up. The local midwife will be doing the sex talk, not your rainbow whatever. Friday is fish day. Friday is fish day. FRIDAYS THERE WILL BE FISH. I KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE. SHOW SOME RESPECT, YOU HEATHEN.

*Teacher has nervous breakdown and is quietly relocated to Nuremberg.*

LOL

Jacob Drafts 1y ago

I’m on board with all that. As a heathen. I been to Dachau. I would encourage that visit as an example to the evil that’s possible when power is ceded to the government.

Laeserin 1y ago

The dads at each school can determine the laws at the school. 🤷‍♀️

I don't have to agree to those laws. Not my kids. Or they can legalize homeschooling and let the schools get completely hollowed out, as the dads pull their kids out and arrange a co-op to suit their own needs. I'm fine with both.

Jacob Drafts 1y ago

I’d prefer the second. It means kids with shitty parents are at a serious disadvantage but that’s the case under the current system. The benefit is it’s a lot harder to kill local culture through indoctrination that is possible with centralized schooling. Even if members of the community are calling a lot of the shots. In my community it’s at the point where people not from here drastically outnumber those of us that are from here.

Laeserin 1y ago

Then it's no longer your community. It's theirs.

Jacob Drafts 1y ago

Which is another reason to favor doing things at the familial level. It makes having several communities in the area more feasible.

Laeserin 1y ago

Yes, homeschooling, private schooling, breaking schools up into smaller catchments, etc. All attempts to get around heterogeneity.