I am compelled to post this again.
The “public school”, including the “charter school”, is BY FAR, the largest, most expensive, most subversive, and most destructive entitlement program in the country.
The “public school” is better understood as the “government school collective”.
It is silly to imagine that you can fix the public schools, because the very concept itself is collectivist.
Any child that comes out of the government school collective with their moral compass and common sense intact does so in spite of the government school indoctrination, not because of it.
To understand the content and compass of modern education, see ...
http://www.scribd.com/doc/54400125/Change-Agents-in-the-Schools-Barbara-Morris-1979
If you want to win the culture war, have lots of children (see my tagline) and homeschool them or form your own school cooperative with your church or synagogue and like-minded friends and relatives.
Nobody loves your children more than you do.
Nobody can teach your children better than you can.
Nobody knows your children better than you do.
Your children would love nothing better than to be taught by you, if you start doing so before they are corrupted by the government school collective.
It is hypocritical for you to submit your children to an authority with whom you fundamentally disagree. And your children will know it.
If you have children, make whatever sacrifices you must to get them out of the public schools.
DO NOT FEED THE BEAST!
Especially not with your own children.
And DO NOT TAKE GOVERNMENT “EDUCATION” MONEY!
He that pays the piper calls the tune, and that’s especially true for any government entitlement program.
Government schools are the engine room of American Socialism.
government schools are a great evil . abolish the government schools, EPA, FCC , FDA, FEC etc, then no more problems. Government running so many things is socialism
There is practically nothing that corrupt evil gov bureaucrats can do better than the free market(CAPITALISM) . private roads, private hospitals , private schools ( or home schooling ), etc. is what we need. repeal laws not keep adding laws at every level every day (wtf?).
The news media keeps creating false crises to get the public to demand that politicians do something and work together to do something. so the politicians do something and that means writing more laws ( and the agencies and regulations that come from those laws) . and that grows government power and gov which is the democrats’ goal : that also decreases our rights and freedom and that is the democrats’ goal too. A side effect is the economy and businesses can't do business with the ever increasing gov regulations so they go out of business or go to China or other countries. thank you democrats/Obama for nothing you statist/socialists evil cretins , for nothing but destroying this country the USA and our freedom you IDIOTS( you democrats at all levels who voted for this
democrats believe that a single corrupt government idiot can run the millions of transactions of the free market better than the free market can. The free market is millions of expert business men working with their OWN money and OWN property) . A gov idiot is a corrupt moron working with someone else's money , working on some stupid theory or model nor reality , and usually working for some liberal goal like "Green" crap not efficiency as does the free market entrepreneur.
There was a time when the public schools worked well enough I would say but that was when financing came from county taxes and there was no meddling by the federal government. When “federal aid to education” came along it was only a matter of time until the complete ruin of the public school system. Now the ruin has gone beyond 1-12 public education, it has reached the university level. There are plenty of “university graduates” walking around where I live who could not possibly pass a high school final from 1972 when I finished high school, most of them could not pass the grade school final to qualify to even enter a public high school of that year. We have people who hold a bachelor degree with a major in history who could not pass a seventh grade history final from 1957, the year I finished seventh grade.
I am a public high school graduate, class of 1962, no further education other than purely technical and I believe I could sit down now and with no source other than my own mind score a higher grade on a history test than any recent college graduate in this area who majored in history. I say this not to brag but out of dismay.