I don't think you are being rude. I appreciate your time. I agree with you that the bill of rights is being degraded by activist judges, but we haven't lost the rule of law yet. A "dumbed down" population, and the subsequent liberal party platforms are the problem. That is why we need to free education. I made a point in an earlier post that the freedom that you and your children enjoy depends on the quality of your fellow citizens. Am I wrong?
Hillsdale college employed the exact strategy that I threw out to you as an option. It is a school that exists without government aid to assure its indepence. We need laws to guarantee that schools like this can maintain substantial freedom from interference. (Thanks for the link, I am superficially aware of this situation, and I will study it a bit more when time permits.)
I made a point in an earlier post that the freedom that you and your children enjoy depends on the quality of your fellow citizens. Am I wrong? Well, I suppose that remains to be seen. Certainly we're less free today than our grandparents were 60 years ago, although better off in some other ways. I'm very fond of antibiotics, air conditioning, and indoor plumbing, none of which were available to my grandparents.
I think we all agree that government control of education is producing ... citizens who can easily be controlled by the government, and that's the intent, even if it isn't publicized as such. My position is that vouchers are not much of a solution, because the control will follow the money. Break the link between government and education, and we'd have something!
You could make the same calculations in the case of, for example, health care. Government money = government making the decisions. The old way was to pay cash, or receive private charity. If we could go back to that ...