So, let me understand this. I have NO problem with the current system of allowing parents the choice of sending their children to public schools, religious school, private schools, charter schools, or home schooling. Your position is the “complete privatization of all schooling”. You claim that this is the position of CHOICE (your caps), and freedom. How is your position taking away my ability to choose the method of schooling for my children the position of CHOICE, and freedom? If you don’t like the public school system, you currently have the freedom not to use it. However, don’t take a position that curtails my right to use the method I think best and call if CHOICE, and freedom.
Your characterization of the public schools position of leaving religion out of the schools as being an “anointed religious” position is very interesting. To quote Inigo Montoya from “Princess Bride” – I do not think it means what you think it means” Seriously, to take a non-religious position and call it an anointed religious position?
By the way – not deaf. There’s a little tinnitus in the left ear that I blame on not using ear protection at the range when I was younger, but my hearing is adequate.
Privatization is a good idea for all the reasons I have outlined many, many, many times here on Free Republic and elsewhere. In the free market of ideas, good ideas win.
Vouchers, tax credits, charters, on-line schooling, co-ops, and homeschooling are growing every year. I fully expect to live to see the day when government owned and run schools are non-existent or very rare. It is possible that I might even live to see the day that there is complete separation of school and state.
Large and intractable institutions can lose their legitimacy seemingly overnight. Some examples are the Protestant Reformation, the American Revolution, slavery, Jim Crow, same-sex marriage. Government institutional schooling is not special. It can completely unravel....quickly!
Quite honestly, I am bored with this debate, especially since my position is winning politically, with parents, and with the voting public.