The core issue is education, or rather the implementation of a spoils system in what is supposedly an education system. But private schools - or even individual parents operating on a do-it-yourself basis - are better at education than politicians are. Once admit that, and the solution is painfully obvious.Privatize education, and the worst likely result is that some parents won’t provide any better education than their children are already (not) getting. But that would institutionalize individual responsibility - a concept which all too many people reject out of hand. Of course, as the article makes clear, there is already individual choice, hence individual responsibility, at some level:
the mere mention of losing accreditation has impacted the housing market in DeKalb, with at least one potential buyer directing his realtor not to search for homes in the county.
The only issue is whether individual choice can be an efficient scalpel or whether, for the convenience of crooks, the choice of real estate must remain coupled with the choice of school.
Privatize?! How about stripping out ‘schools’ from the tax base and have parents pay for their own brood?
No kids? no taxes. For everyone else, you take care of your own. I know, novel concept.
Makes about as much sense to send kids off to strangers to be educated, as much as it is to send them off to day-care to raise....and expect them to come ‘back’ in the mold of the parents (religion, politics, thinking, etc.)
I notice too the Black Caucus (talk about racist) is trying to keep the tax slaves on the plantation. You would have thought after 150+ years....
Hm?....I am reminded of the crony capitalists in “Atlas Shrugged”.
Very good point! Government K-12 socialist-entitlement schooling is just as much a part of fascism as crony capitalism. It is likely the **cause** of crony capitalism and the growing threat of tyrannous fascism in the U.S. Why?
Answer 1): Children who attend government socialist-entitlement and godless schools **will** learn to think and reason godlessly. They must just to cooperate in the classroom. They risk learning to throw their private religious belief in the trash can at the door to their public life.
Answer #2: Children in government owned and run K-12 schools risk learning that any voting mob powerful enough to give them tuition-free schooling is powerful enough to give them **lots** of free stuff. They risk learning to see government as their redeemer and savior.
This ping list is for the “other” articles of interest to homeschoolers about education and public school. This can occasionally be a fairly high volume list. Articles pinged to the Another Reason to Homeschool List will be given the keyword of ARTH. (If I remember. If I forget, please feel free to add it yourself)
The main Homeschool Ping List handles the homeschool-specific articles. I hold both the Homeschool Ping List and the Another Reason to Homeschool Ping list. Please freepmail me to let me know if you would like to be added to or removed from either list, or both.