Not everone can afford to send their kids to private school. Are you willing to pay for those that can't, or are you just talking?
1. Who ever said private schools are the only alternative to public schools?
2. Did you ever ask yourself if you -- or Americans in general -- can afford PUBLIC schools?
3. If you rely on the state for the education of your children, then you are basically a slave to that state and have no place on a website called Free Republic.
4. The term "education" in Item #3 is a misnomer -- because public schools aren't there to educate anyone. Public schools were, in fact, designed NOT to educate children, but to mold them into tools of the state and its corporate partners. You can read the writings of John Dewey -- the "grandfather of American public schools" -- to verify this. He saw public schools as nothing more than a mechanism for training an industrial work force to support U.S. industries.
Public schools started out as essentally subsidized private schools, parents got together and created a local school, which was subsidized by the government.
They were fine as long as they were local and controlled by the local school boards.
Three things destroyed that. They were planned, coordinated attacks on local control.
First was the rise of the national teachers unions, which never should have been allowed to exist. They existed by Supreme Court activism
Second was the rise in federal funding, which resulted in defacto control over critical issues, and the centralization of schools.
Third was the busing and race based affirmative action. Direct assaults on local control which were unconstitutional attacks on parental rights. More Supreme Court activism.
Desegregation is completely different from affirmative action.
Affirmative action is direct racism, as we have seen.
There are numerous ways to learn without attending a school.
“Are you willing to pay for those that can’t,..”
We pay for other people’s kids regardless of their ability to pay. And we get a crappy product.
Your kids are your responsibility. And that includes educating them.
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