I feel like eventually you're going to need to adopt a more workable solution than "de-fund" the State which in this case is the public educational system, but I gather might well include quite a few other "coercive" and controlling institutions. This idealistic and aloof stance reminds me of my own youthful punk-rock affiliation to the utopian cry for Anarchy; much beloved by bands and rebels everywhere for the big A with a circle around it. Easy to spray paint on a wall, scrawl on your school books, or stencil on your combat boots as I did. Back then, young "rebel" artist that I was, I took the time to silkscreen a sweatshirt with the following lines of political poetry (imagine if you will the two capitalized "A"s as Anarchy symbols)
"No Justice, No LAw
No Crime, No FlAw"
Quite Liberatarian in its way too, wouldn't you say? And it is perfect because it uses the same inverse logic that fueled the "de-fund the police" rallying cry: it's the police themselves that fuel crime. By extension this could be applied to the military and anything else one deems oppressive to the individual. And sure, literally everything under the umbrella of "municipal" is restrictive and requires someone, probably everyone, to give up something.
Then again, you don't have kids that need education and have already reaped the benefits of "the system" so maybe it's easy to see it as all too much trouble anyway. City council meetings are by design tedious, slow and grating simply because they have take into account all the real-world problems inherent in Life with other human beings. We evolved to organize into groups of 100-300 or so, and at those numbers very little structure need be applied. Except that stopped being how things worked out a few thousand years ago. Whether the punk anarchist on the left of the Right of Center libertarian wants to admit it or not: reality just doesn't work that way.
The police de-funders all seemed to forget that "systemic" or not, there are enough people out there who do genuinely want to cause harm to others, to steal, and to sell substances that routinely kill their customers, and that it's kind of a good thing to keep 911 around when you run into such individuals. I myself also enjoy having untainted water, sewers that bring our waste to be treated, electricity I can count on, natural gas that heats our house, roads that are both paved and get plowed, restaurants that I can trust not to serve spoiled food at, nearby hospitals for birthing as well as removing a failing organ, schools that do an OK job of preparing kids for adulthood. None of it is great, but neither are most human beings come to think of it. But it is what we are.
Lastly, just to give some on the ground perspective: The ONLY schools around here that you're going to find teaching some form of hard-left progressivism are the private ones. The public schools, even in MA, the bluest of blue states, teach what might be characterized as slightly Left of Center curricula, but certainly not anything like a concerted progressive agenda. This skew however is nothing new and has swung back and forth over the years. We grew up with decidedly Right of Center teaching perspective, whereby the Civil War wasn't about slavery but "states rights" and economic independence (except it turns out that EVERY Southern state explicitly stated that slavery was in fact the primary factor for succession). At the end of the day, those who detach from society are only those that can do so and still remain comfortable. This also is nothing new of course. Meanwhile, the rest of us feel there is work to be done.
I feel like eventually you're going to need to adopt a more workable solution than "de-fund" the State which in this case is the public educational system, but I gather might well include quite a few other "coercive" and controlling institutions. This idealistic and aloof stance reminds me of my own youthful punk-rock affiliation to the utopian cry for Anarchy; much beloved by bands and rebels everywhere for the big A with a circle around it. Easy to spray paint on a wall, scrawl on your school books, or stencil on your combat boots as I did. Back then, young "rebel" artist that I was, I took the time to silkscreen a sweatshirt with the following lines of political poetry (imagine if you will the two capitalized "A"s as Anarchy symbols)
"No Justice, No LAw
No Crime, No FlAw"
Quite Liberatarian in its way too, wouldn't you say? And it is perfect because it uses the same inverse logic that fueled the "de-fund the police" rallying cry: it's the police themselves that fuel crime. By extension this could be applied to the military and anything else one deems oppressive to the individual. And sure, literally everything under the umbrella of "municipal" is restrictive and requires someone, probably everyone, to give up something.
Then again, you don't have kids that need education and have already reaped the benefits of "the system" so maybe it's easy to see it as all too much trouble anyway. City council meetings are by design tedious, slow and grating simply because they have take into account all the real-world problems inherent in Life with other human beings. We evolved to organize into groups of 100-300 or so, and at those numbers very little structure need be applied. Except that stopped being how things worked out a few thousand years ago. Whether the punk anarchist on the left of the Right of Center libertarian wants to admit it or not: reality just doesn't work that way.
The police de-funders all seemed to forget that "systemic" or not, there are enough people out there who do genuinely want to cause harm to others, to steal, and to sell substances that routinely kill their customers, and that it's kind of a good thing to keep 911 around when you run into such individuals. I myself also enjoy having untainted water, sewers that bring our waste to be treated, electricity I can count on, natural gas that heats our house, roads that are both paved and get plowed, restaurants that I can trust not to serve spoiled food at, nearby hospitals for birthing as well as removing a failing organ, schools that do an OK job of preparing kids for adulthood. None of it is great, but neither are most human beings come to think of it. But it is what we are.
Lastly, just to give some on the ground perspective: The ONLY schools around here that you're going to find teaching some form of hard-left progressivism are the private ones. The public schools, even in MA, the bluest of blue states, teach what might be characterized as slightly Left of Center curricula, but certainly not anything like a concerted progressive agenda. This skew however is nothing new and has swung back and forth over the years. We grew up with decidedly Right of Center teaching perspective, whereby the Civil War wasn't about slavery but "states rights" and economic independence (except it turns out that EVERY Southern state explicitly stated that slavery was in fact the primary factor for succession). At the end of the day, those who detach from society are only those that can do so and still remain comfortable. This also is nothing new of course. Meanwhile, the rest of us feel there is work to be done.