Thursday, December 31, 2009

Four Ways for a High School

According to the logic on the American spectrum, you have communal, social-democratic, conservative-republic and libertarian living. Each type has different assumptions, expectations and methods for how to manage money, resources and people.

Commune: Complete public ownership, average citizen contributes greatly to management
Social-democracy: Mostly public ownership, large professional government
Conservative-republic: Mostly private ownership, small delegating government
Syndicate: Complete private ownership, average citizen is expected to self-manage


We spend so much time vying for domination and little time building each lifestyle by its goals. So I ask how each system operates and how it tackles different needs. A big one, perhaps the most important one, is education.

Let's say you had a town of 50,000 people who all agreed to live by once complete system.

What would a high school look like in each of these systems?

QUESTIONS:
1) How would parent involvement vary? Which would have the largest amount of home-schooled?

2) How would curriculum vary?

3) Would the syndicate focus more on home economics and personal welfare?

4) Would the communal focus more on interpersonal relations and teamwork?

5) If the republic had its charter schools, would they separate them by special needs -- average -- gifted?

6) Would the democracy focus on public administration more than business?

7) How would the view of science change? Would the more private the system, the more theories are open to interpretation? Would the more social systems want fixed, agreed interpretations?

8) Would liberal arts be more important in a private or social system?