Why Everyone Needs To Be Involved In Saving The Public Schools

Business versus Education blog ^ | April 2, 2010 | Bruce Deitrick Price

[BruceDeitrickPrice]

I see comments on the Internet, especially on the conservative side, that might be summed up this way: “Public schools are a disaster. They should be shut down. Homeschool your kids, that’s the only way.”

It’s not the specifics that bother me. (Some very smart people have proposed privatizing the public schools.) It’s the idea that you can turn away, or that you can turn inward, and thereby avoid all that unpleasantness over there, on the other side of town.

Homeschooling seems to me a wonderful option, as are private schools, charter schools, etc. Together they can save about 10% of the kids. But what about the other 90% of the kids? They are still being dumbed down, still being indoctrinated. In a few years they will be voting. These ignorant and half-literate people will pick your leaders.

It doesn’t matter whether your kids are being homeschooled or they attend a good private school. All of us have to be concerned about saving the public schools. There’s no escape!

In fact, here’s the irony. It’s the parents not connected to the public schools who can most help the public schools. They know what real education looks like.

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[polymuser]

And don't forget The Frankfurt School and Columbia U. in the public/government/union schools fiasco.

[B Knotts]

It is impossible to reform the public schools; the public employee unions are too powerful.