[onewhowatches]

Although you find it annoying, privatization of universal K-12 education is the only solution to these continual curriculum wars.

That's Balkanization.

What's follows privatized schools? Enclaves? Segregated neighborhoods? Segregated states?

What then? Warfare between neighboring enclaves?

Great. Set humankind back 10,000 years while you're at it. Armed and warring city states are where civilization started, and it sounds like your plan might just head us back there.

If the muslims don't do it first.

[Wallace T.]

The underlying philosophy of the Founders of this nation was one of limited government. American conservatism is rooted in this foundational philosophy. In the early days of the Republic, education was either in private hands or, if handled by a public authority, was handled entirely on a local level and usually associated with the predominant denomination, such as in New England, where town supported schools were administered by Congregationalist clergy. Most of the population of New England, Rhode Island and parts of Connecticut excepted, was overwhelmingly Congregationalist. Returning to a private market in education would reflect the perspective of most of the Founders of the republic.

If we were to survey those areas where customer satisfaction is low and there is a scarcity of product, we would find that those areas that have historically been state administered, such as education, highways, and water supply, or that are heavily state regulated, such as air travel and medicine, predominate. Where there is a state monopoly, near monopoly, or private ownership protected by the state, market discipline does not exist. Thus, a liberal public high school can denigrate religion, support sexual license, and teach PC history, and the parents, unless they are able to go to private schools or home school their children, have no choice over the matter. While school boards are popularly elected, judicial decisions and state and Federal bureaucracies often tie their hands. Additionally, school board elections are often dominated by teachers and other school employees, who tend to support candidates whose views are in line with the NEA and other left wing groups.

Socialism has not worked in the area of education any more than it has worked in any other field of business. It is past time to separate school and state.