Get the feds and the states out of school decisions; and put it back in the hands of your local elected parents/friends.
Please read post #46.
Government schools can NOT be reformed! They **are** ( and always were) a socialist scheme. Socialism can not be reformed!!!!
Your statement is another one of the futile “if only ...” arguments used by people who believe government schools can be reformed. In your case you believe that “if only” schools boards were more conservative, “if only” decisions were made on a more local level the government schools would be reformed.
Wrong!
All taxpayer supported schools have **always** taught children that the government can force their neighbor to pay for a service that their parents want for FREE! Do this for 13 or more years and it is a short step from wanting free schooling to wanting free medicine, retirement, disability, health care, home heating, transportation, food, welfare checks, housing, clothing,...and even free entertainment!
Government schools really are recent in our history. The last states to mandate them was not until the beginning of the 1900s. My mother, by the way, is still alive and is 96 years old and a member of the “Greatest Generation”. She was born in 1913. Our county's high school is celebrating it 100th anniversary this year.
It is my belief that the reason FDR and his “New Deal” came to pass (and the income tax, as well) was due to my mother's generation and my grandparents being educated in compulsory attendance, compulsory tax-funded schools. She and my grandparents learned to be comfortable with socialism by attending socialist government schools.