Posted on 07/09/2020 7:21:29 AM PDT by KeyLargo
Destroy the ‘Public’ Education System By David Harsanyi
July 7, 2020 6:30 AM
It’s largely a left-wing propaganda machine that funds Democratic politicians and entrenches racial segregation.
‘Public” schools have been a catastrophe for the United States. This certainly isn’t an original assertion, but as we watch thousands of authoritarian brats tearing down the legacies of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, it’s more apparent than ever.
State-run schools have undercut two fundamental conditions of a healthy tolerant society. First, they’ve created millions of civic illiterates who are disconnected from long-held communal values and national identity. Second, they’ve exacerbated the very inequalities that trigger the tearing apart of fissures.If you’re interested in ferreting out “systemic racism,” go to a big-city public-school system. No institution has fought harder to preserve segregated communities than the average teachers’ union. And I don’t mean only in the schools.
Prosperous Americans already enjoy school choice — and not merely because they can afford private schools. Anyone who has ever tried to buy a suburban home in a major metro area can tell you how acutely school districts influence home prices. Many middle-class and working-class families are priced out of areas with good schools because of inflated home values and high property taxes. And families who might otherwise choose to live in more diverse areas are kept out because of failing schools.
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And that’s the way the Liberal elites like it. Hypocrisy is legion with them.
Which come from parents vying for good homes in good school districts! Trust me, that's what we did...
It’s largely a left-wing propaganda machine that funds Democratic politicians
Yes it is and it must be destroyed if we are to survive as a nation.
It’s already been destroyed. Time to completely abolish it, and then create a new system.
Judging by the people that are running BLM and Antifa, our public schools have been a complete failure, education wise.
Heck you can just look at a significant portion of the teaching staff, including the higher learning institutions, to see the problem. The total elimination of, in a majority of cases, conservative instructors and instructions exposes the incompetence of the institutions. 8>)
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