"What the fuck makes you think my daughter is in any way 'disadvantaged'????"

Umm, I don't believe I said that. You many be happy with the standard of education you were able to provide for your daughter. I would not be satisfied with the standard of education that I, as an untrained individual whose own knowledge in certain areas is extremely limited, would be able to provide for mine.

"School has only been around for a relatively short time, in the scheme of things. Mankind still managed perfectly well without it."

It also managed without indoor sanitation, without antibiotics, without the NHS...just because we "managed" doesn't mean we should wish those days back. Ignorance is NOT bliss.

"Your daughter has skills in languages and maths"

Actually, she is not particularly gifted in either of those areas - she has to work hard at them and needs the support of teachers who know the subjects well and can help her to understand them in a way that I never could. Consequently, school is giving her opportunities which I, as a parent, would be incapable of. I do not want my daughter limited by my own limitations. That's the whole point.

You seem to think that, by explaining my reasons for thinking that state education is generally A Good Thing, I am having a dig at how you educated your own children, but I was simply responding to your earlier accusation that all of us in an early diatribe, accuse all of us who send our kids to school of being "brainwashed into giving your children over to the State, to have them loaded down with pressure, to have them tested, examined...and sometimes brought to within an inch of suicide, if not actually carrying that out..."


Well, my daughter is getting a good education, has lots of friends and, so far as I can tell, is not suicidal. I'm sorry that you can't accept that other people might be perfectly happy with the choices they've made, that don't happen to be the same as yours.