The Case Against Public Schools

The Case Against Public Schools

Public education is widely held to be a key tenet of any successful nation, a key factor to the development of a nation’s young minds. Without some form of public education, many argue, literacy levels and college readiness would decline sharply.
Wrong.
Education is what is needed, and it matters little whether it is public or private in terms of quality. Indeed, private schools often deliver a higher quality education without many of the major drawbacks of public education – those caused by the government intervention into the system, local and federal.
One need look no further than the recent debacle in Kansas regarding what should be taught in science classes, natural selection or the intelligent design “theory” (more on that later). Private schools would completely avoid such a mess… if you want little Johnny and little Susie to be taught one or the other, enroll them in a school that shares your views.
No government intervention, big brother interference, or clash of ideologies.
What, you may ask, about those families who cannot afford private education? How can you forget them? I haven’t.
Right now, we all pay taxes to support public education, whether we use it or not. Perhaps what could be done is a “pay to use” system, in which parents choosing to continue to use public schools pay the tax to support them, and those choosing to enroll in private education do not. More private schools in use will increase competition among them and drive down prices.
Win win.
Our government is increasingly socialist. Cradle to grave welfare, subsidies, and intervention have seen to that. We fought so hard in the Cold War to stop Communism, and here we are complacently allowing the next best thing to creep up on us. Free market, the key to free societies, begin with free educational choice.
Don’t you want your kid to be taught what you want, not what Uncle Sam wants?
Welfare, social security, subsidized housing… they are the shovels that are digging the hole for America’s grave. Public schools are the grim reaper… unseen and unheralded yet ultimately the most powerful thing in the land. Indoctrination has been the key for any regime, to influence the minds of the most fallible members of society. The Nazis had Hitler’s Youth. America has public education.
The government wants power. It wants influence. What better way to get it than to tell kids from age 6 that it is okay for the government to dictate personal lives? Teach them to follow complacently rather than experience the harsh raw winds of independent thought? Mind control; subliminal conditioning.
Chew on that.