I’ve read through the U.S. Constitution for years, and I still can’t find a constitutional right to a free education anywhere.
“I’ve read through the U.S. Constitution for years, and I still can’t find a constitutional right to a free education anywhere.”
No, but the founders certainly believed in a literate society. The hallmark of the political left is to have people that are controllable. The easiest way to do this is to have serfs who can’t think or reason but believe they can. The easiest way to do that is to give a false education.
So, while a strictly constitutional issue it is relevant to the government and the society at large has a clear and abiding interest in making sure that citizens are educated.
Having said that - I believe that public schools are child abuse. All public schools. Even the so-called “Good ones”
The Constitution is an amazing document but not everyone has learned how to read it correctly. Remember how the map in LoTR had runes that could only be seen in moonlight? The Constitution is similar but to find many of the newer rights you have to hold it over a toilet and peer around the edge into the penumbras.
Usually the child’s/student’s rights to an education is part of a State’s constitution.
Typically the right to an education falls under the Constitution of a State and in my research they create or appoint an agency that is in “charge” of educating the populace in a given state. It is done for very pragmatic reasons, to develop the people in each state into a level of competence and skills that enable businesses in their state to find employees and grow the financial health and well being for all.
As to “free” look at where your taxes go, children or not. The funding for the school system is added in as a component and whether or not you have children or they have passed through the required educational levels (K-12) you still pay for it.
The question I take away from this is the “lock” the Edutocracy has on “Public Education” Parents should be able to direct the funding allocated to each student for attendance at the school of their choosing. The death grip the Unions have on this vital function prevents the ascendance of alternatives without a parent paying twice or more.
When I lived in Chicago there was a fairly robust “Catholic” run alternative but the funding was from the parents, not the state. People would pay the fee to go their as the education overall was superior and at their choosing the Religious element was included as well.
So it is not free by a casual viewpoint but without it many children did go basically uneducated as the family farm or other vocation at the time did not require it. But consider this, if you think the average person is poorly informed or educated today consider the consequences of leaving it up to the parents who themselves were denied this vital component.
It’s an integral portion of the part that says law enforcement can force kids to go and punish their patents if they do not. If one then the other.
Thank Jimmy Carter and his Department of Education for nationalizing education.
One of Reagan’s failures was not disbanding this department.
“I’ve read through the U.S. Constitution for years, and I still can’t find a constitutional right to a free education anywhere.”
It’s in the State Constitution.
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there is no education “right” but if an entity takes your money and then does not deliver, can’t they be sued over a unfulfilled contract?