State Senator from Utah wants to give parents a choice as to whether to educate their children or not. Yep, because more stupid people means more Republican voters.

"Look how can being an uneducated person be bad? Uneducated people are how I got this job."

Courtesy of the Deseret News:  

"Some parents act as if the responsibility to educate, and even care for their child, is primarily the responsibility of the public school system," Osmond wrote. "As a result, our teachers and schools have been forced to become surrogate parents, expected to do everything from behavioral counseling, to providing adequate nutrition, to teaching sex education, as well as ensuring full college and career readiness." 

Osmond wrote further that in the current state of public education, teachers do not receive meaningful support from parents, while at the same time parents become frustrated that schools are not able to meet the individual needs of their children. Osmond told the Deseret News that there is a need to shift the public mindset to viewing learning as an opportunity as opposed to an obligation, while also reinforcing the idea of liberty and choice. 

"Let’s let them choose it, let’s not force them to do it," he said. "I think that’s when you start seeing the shift."

Yeah a shift toward increased ignorance, increased crime, increased drug use, and an increased number of single parent families. Fucking brilliant.

You know this is the kind of shit that pisses me off to no end. This asshole starts off sounding completely reasonable, and even sympathetic toward both parents and teachers, and then he inserts this stupid idea that, if implemented, would severely damage this country's ability to compete in the world market and dramatically impair our ability to move forward as a nation.

Just imagine how many MORE social programs would have to be created to serve the growing number of undereducated uninspired young adults that would have developed few skills to make themselves employable nor the fundamental educational requirements it takes to navigate their lives effectively. Oh I'm sorry, he's a Republican, so instead they would be expected to just "pull themselves up by their own bootstraps."

This guy seems to believe that parents, many working two jobs to get by themselves, will somehow have the time to educate their children at home as well as prepare them for an occupation.

THAT is completely divorced from the reality facing most parents today, and just imagine how difficult it would be for these beleaguered parents to get their children to school each day once the kids realized it was not compulsory, and knew the schools could do nothing to provide consequences for not showing up.

This is just another thinly veiled attack on the public school system leveled by another asshole Republican who only sees short term political gain, and not the long term negative effects to his constituents and to the country that he pledged to serve faithfully.