In our social system, we often just take for granted that the way our educational system set up is the way it should be without question.  But if you look at society across the ages, turning your children over to strangers without question to educate them in ways that are not your own is far from the normal way most societies bring their young up to adult level of knowledge and skill.

If anything, the two models that most resemble the way families educate their children historically is home school or private school.  It’s only the advent of large cities and a move away from the agricultural lifestyle that brought on the phenomenon of huge public schools as we know them.  As recently as the generation before The Baby Boomers, public education was handled at the local level where the local community hired a teacher and brought the children together for basic instructions under the watchful eye of the local school board.

Parents were far more the authority under that system and the idea that the teacher or the school administration had more to say about what your child would be taught than you do was as ridiculous as the idea that the grocery clerk could tell you what food you could or could not buy.

This early model of private school is more in step with the way most of our social support systems work.  We by and large maintain a capitalist society where people are allowed to do work for us as long as they conform to our expectations.  The employee doesn’t tell the employer what they can expect and the employer is not denied access to the process as it often the case in public schools.

Now to say that public schools “kidnap” our children and “indoctrinates” them into some strange alien way of thinking is overly dramatic.  To be practical, most local schools systems are looking after the best interest of the children.  The basic education of the kids in the core disciplines (reading, writing and arithmetic) still are the reason for existing for most public schools.

But there are abuses that crop up in virtually every public school system that often aggravate parents.  The very fact that the private school movement has been such a success is a testimony to the fact that public schools are not serving the needs of all of the children and their families who pay taxes for such service so those parents must seek other alternatives for their children.

It really is unfair if you think about it because of the almost “socialist” way that public schools are run.  Funding for public schools is usually enabled by taxation.  But many who pay into the system do not benefit from it because they do not have children and they don’t have a say in whether they approve of the system or want to see it changed.  Furthermore, if a family decides to take their child out of the public schools and pay for private school, they have to continue to support the public schools with their taxes and in effect pay for two school systems, one of which failed to serve their needs.

Looking at the differences between public and private schools in this way doesn’t solve anything.  For the time being, the situation is not likely to change.  The most important thing is that your child gets the best education possible and the decision you must make between public and private schools for your kid’s sake must look away from the unfairness of the system as it works today.  But it is helpful to look at the system this way so we can work as a society to make things better over time.  That is our job as parents and as citizens as well.

Politics is mainly the method and process of taking decisions for the group. The word politics integrates all the domestic and international policies. These are mainly the activities of government on state level or national level political affairs. Since these are mainly the activities of government this does not mean that only government is responsible for carrying out all politics or government alone is involved in all political matters or politics is always carried out in national or state level affairs.

As defined in very first line politics is mainly the method and process of taking decisions for the groups. So politics can be from any group any group like politics can be from opposition party of the ruling party. Whenever the issue of protection of rights of group of members rises there the politics enters into scene. Politics can affect our system both ways that is negatively as well as positively. It can affect negatively because many times people leave their jobs due to politics at their workplace which they feel that is just the wastage of time and they should just avoid that it is because they don’t want to waste their time in any other activity except their work. This led to increase of pending of jobs and thus adversely affects the organization. Sometimes people may also leave their jobs which would result in lose of human resource of the company. Sometimes it happens that people form groups at their workplace and do not want others to join their group and also promote members of their own group against the other members and sometimes they may also try to let down the other members which are not from their groups and which may also cause rivalries between groups in the company and thus the workplace becomes the war place. These type of group rivalries are mostly seen in those offices where lot of people work. These types of group rivalries are the main reason for collapse of work in the organization because of non cooperation from all the workers of company. Mainly those workers cause problems who are engaged in group politics. But sometimes this politics can also be useful to groups as well as company. Let’s see how:

Politics can also remove the root cause of misunderstandings between the workers and the top management in the organization. Politics can help to prevent the rights and interests of workers in the company.

This is not a site about Socialism as most of you may know it. This is a site that is discussing socialism in its purist sense.

So what is ‘Socialism’ according to us?

In the world of today, there are as many definitions of Socialism as there are political parties. We will be applying the following defintition in this site:

“Socialism is a political, economic and social system in which property, industry and wealth are in the control of the community and used to benefit the community itself.”

We will be arguing about the how much ‘property, industry and wealth’ should be in the control of the community and how, and to what extent, they should be controlled.

Some examples of socialism in action in the UK:

The National Health Service
The Education System
The Rail Network
The Power Industry
The Water Industry

“What?” I hear you say, “weren’t the last three privatised – surely they can’t be an example of socialism?”

Of course they still are, just less so than they used to be.

All of these industries have checks and balances in place that place ultimate control over how they are run in the hands of our elected government.

We can argue about how effectively they are run, and whether they may be better off totally in private hands, but that doesn’t change the fact that they are still a form of socialism in action.

OK, so thats our flag nailed firmly to the mast – lets go change the world