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The only way the public education system in this country is going to change is if the business community pushes the change. We know that won't happen as long as they can bring in highly educated people from overseas who will do the jobs that Americans weren't educated to perform.

Your retort is filled with so much irony that it is difficult to read with a straight face!

I am a business owner. I want to "improve our public education system."

I walk down to my local school district building and tell the Administrative Vice-Superintendent that I've got some plans for fixing his schools. He kicks me out.

I go to a Jr. High School with some electrical engineering materials to interest the students. I'm cited for safety violations for lasers and soldering irons (hot lead.)

I go to an Elementary School and talk to a teacher about ways to encourage kids to understand math. I'm arrested for being a white man on school grounds with no children of my own there....obviously a pervert.

Let me tell you something! The only way to reform GOVERNMENT education systems is to bring in the TRUST BUSTERS and break up the monopoly and let "Independent School Districts" be independent entities again where businesses (aka free market) -can- influence them.

Let me tell you something! The only way to reform GOVERNMENT education systems is to bring in the TRUST BUSTERS and break up the monopoly and let "Independent School Districts" be independent entities again where businesses (aka free market) -can- influence them

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I agree with you post except for the last sentence.

What is needed is complete privatization of universal K-12 education. Even if the school district is small, it can still compel children to attend, and collect taxes by threat of police force. This is still a price-fixed monopoly government school, only smaller.

Also, even if school districts were as small as a suburban subdivision block, there is NO way for any government school to be equally respectful of the competing political, religious, and cultural worldviews of even these few families. No matter what the government does its school will ***establish** the religion, politics, and culture of some of the families, and actively work to destroy the religious, cultural, and political beliefs of some.

Establish?...Hm?...This does have a First Amendment ring to it. Therefore, all government schools are an offense to freedom of conscience.

Solution: Begin the process of privatizing universal K-12 education.

My suggestion to parents is to examine the entire premise of institutionalizing their child for his education. It is NOT physically, emotionally, or socially normal or healthy to segregate children into same age packs and then herd them about to Pavlov's bell.

The home, extended family, and the neighborhood has been the model for raising children since the dawn of humanity. Institutionalization of children for "schooling" is a very new phenomena. Yes, some children will need institutionalization. If this is necessary, then the best option are private schools, chosen for the child by his parent.