No, I don't think public education is "an absolute necessity for human survival." I do think it's a necessity for a literate populace.
m: how do parents pay for "private food",
They buy it. Food is not generally as expensive as education. In cases where parents cannot afford to buy "private food" (and those cases are becoming more and more common in this country) they rely either on "public food" (food stamps and welfare) or charities. Sometimes the children rely on the "public food" provided by schools during the regular school year. Food banks these days are pretty much swamped, especially at the end of the month, by families who can't put food on the table.
And sometimes, all of these fail, in which case, the families go hungry.
M: he public education cartel were broken, and it is failing, as we speak, people would find that there were and are almost uncountably many alternativesyaddayaddayaddayaddayaddayaddayadda...
You're just offering more generalized blather here. You really are in love with the "look Ma, I'm writing!" approach to prose, aren't you?
What affordable "alternatives" are you talking about? A barter system? How would that work? For instance, I teach, and am currently paid to teach, English in a summer school here. What would the mostly low-income working class parents of my students offer me in barter? And how would that barter be realistically translated into an ability to play for my rent, utilities, and healthcare?
Re: Public education is political indoctrination paid for by theft
m: how do parents pay for "private food",
They buy it. Food is not generally as expensive as education. In cases where parents cannot afford to buy "private food" (and those cases are becoming more and more common in this country) they rely either on "public food" (food stamps and welfare) or charities. Sometimes the children rely on the "public food" provided by schools during the regular school year. Food banks these days are pretty much swamped, especially at the end of the month, by families who can't put food on the table.
And sometimes, all of these fail, in which case, the families go hungry.
M: he public education cartel were broken, and it is failing, as we speak, people would find that there were and are almost uncountably many alternativesyaddayaddayaddayaddayaddayaddayadda...
You're just offering more generalized blather here. You really are in love with the "look Ma, I'm writing!" approach to prose, aren't you?
What affordable "alternatives" are you talking about? A barter system? How would that work? For instance, I teach, and am currently paid to teach, English in a summer school here. What would the mostly low-income working class parents of my students offer me in barter? And how would that barter be realistically translated into an ability to play for my rent, utilities, and healthcare?