Do you really think that modern parents have the time or desire to run private schools? They could probably manage to raise their own children better, if they didn’t have to hold-down jobs and all the other commitments of the 21st century like looking after aged grandparents &c. Where is this army of private educationalists going to come from? And why are parents all too busy to be on school governance committees these days anyway? Isn’t it because we’re all caught-up in this frenetic market system which stems from the capitalist private property rights you yourselves champion?

I agree with you that strait-jacketed education should be a thing of the past – but you guys are simply day-dreaming. There is some seriously basic thinking going on here; you just need to take a look at phrases such as “children do not have to go to school” – I mean, can you picture the streets of central Auckland if such a law were passed?

Are you anarchists?

I was forced into school(in Europe), and for me it was pure hell! When I finally got released out of this prison, I was a mental wreck, and it took me another 15 years of my life to recover.

Because I was never allowed to say “NO” during 10 years of schooling, I became extremely rebellious afterwards: I said a million times “NO” at any job I had, JUST IN DEFIANCE…
Put in simple words: I could not (did not want to…) keep a job, just to revenge my school-time…

I am healed now finally. I lost half of my life though.

No way in the world could I ever force my kids into any school! I would be deeply ashamed of myself doing that.