More: Utah Legislator Calls for End to Compulsory Education

SALT LAKE CITY — Compulsory education laws have resulted in parents disengaging themselves from the responsibility to oversee the education of their children and have caused schools to falter under the burden of being all things to all people.

Those points are among the arguments made by Sen. Aaron Osmond, R-South Jordan, in an article posted Friday on the blog of the Utah State Senate, in which Osmond called for the end of compulsory education in the state.

“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.”

Read more: deseretnews.com

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Bryan Fischer thinks this is a swell idea.

Legislator calls for end to compulsory education. He’s right. Should be by parental choice. http://t.co/fIzZzjr4bz

— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) July 17, 2013