Freak Out as Conservatives Exit Public Schools, Abandon Reform

Thenewamerican.com ^ | 10/18/21 | Alex Newman

[cotton1706]

The totalitarian-minded education establishment and its extreme left-wing allies are starting to freak out as conservatives abandon futile efforts to “reform” government schools in favor of a mass-exodus strategy. Even powerful union bosses are starting to panic.

The trend has been building quietly for years. But it has accelerated rapidly in recent months as a trickle of families fleeing the system became a tidal wave amid face-mask edicts, vaccine mandates, Critical Race Theory, Marxist indoctrination, extreme “sex education,” and other controversies.

The first major shoe to drop in response came on September 30, when the fringe left-wing magazine New Republic released a major article claiming Republicans were now out to destroy the public-school system instead of “reform” it.

“Republicans Don’t Want to Reform Public Education. They Want to End It,” blared the headline in the far-left magazine, famous for lying about and even praising the mass-murdering Soviet dictatorship. “Florida’s recent struggles over masks in schools augur a terrifying shift in the right’s approach to education policy.”

According to the article, conservatives are increasingly abandoning the idea of “reforming” public schools. Instead, the article argues, the new approach is to get as many children as possible out of the system and into private schools or homeschooling.

[wbarmy]

Not in Texas they ain’t. They have no power to even suggest this, because there are really strong home-schooling and private school organizations now who have a big mailing list.

[Adder]

Yeah I know...but you will still pay for the schools...

[Persevero]

I don’t see taking over the education of our children as a retreat, but as an advance.

We can still work to improve public Ed. I worked here to recall three of the worst school board members. The recall election will be in February.

Even if you see it as a retreat: my opinion, adults go to war. We should not send our children.

[Persevero]

I beg to differ. I have fought all my life. Homeschooled all my kids through to college as well.

They are all good conservatives and vote properly.

[Kevmo]

I like to say I spent 3 days willingly in high school, arguably one of the worst high schools in the nation at the time. It was so bad that a teacher named Luann Johnson wrote a book about her experiences there, it became a famous movie “Dangerous Minds” with Michelle Pfeiffer [and even a TV series with Annie Potts]. Carlmont High School.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlmont_High_School

I was in the advanced classes. The homeroom teacher said that he had to inform us even though he felt it didn’t apply to us, that we could take a test to get out of high school. I thought about it for 3 days, then quit high school and was in community college the next semester.

If I had known about this avenue I would have skipped high school altogether.

from my home page

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Here’s my modest proposal for education reform.

We have been discussing ways to fast track kids through high school to avoid the liberal agenda and other idiocies:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1315730/posts?page=84#84

Proposal for the Free Republic High School Diploma.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1316882/posts

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[seowulf]

The Prussian Model is what public schooling has been following since the early 20th century.

“Modern forced schooling started in Prussia in 1819 with a clear vision of what centralized schools could deliver:

Obedient soldiers to the army

Obedient workers to the mines

Well subordinated civil servants to government

Well subordinated clerks to industry

Citizens who thought alike about major issues.

Schools should create an artificial national consensus on matters that had been worked out in advance by leading German families and the head of institutions. Schools should create unity among all the German states, eventually unifying them into Greater Prussia.”

[Alberta's Child]

I understand your sentiments but I disagree with that approach.

Employers should pay their staff to get their work done and meet the company's obligations to its customers and clients. The growth of these stupid non-payroll forms of compensation has done nothing but spawn entire bureaucracies around the delivery of these benefits to the employees and the required documentation to the government.

My approach as an employer is that I should simply pay people enough to cover these costs themselves. And if I'm particularly impressed with what a private school offers, I can have the company support the school in other ways.

[The Truth Will Make You Free]

We paid the price. It cost us $100,000 to send our 3 children to private Christian schools, with a few years homeschooling and two years in public high school for two of them.

Best investment ever. Their Christian faith is intact. No problems at all like I had pre-Christ (drugs, booze, immorality, occult, dangerous lifestyle, etc.). All married fine Christian spouses.

It’s more essential to do likewise today.

[The Truth Will Make You Free]

I’ve read public schooling — one-room school houses included — took off in America after the Civil War. Previously education was the responsibility of the parents. After the CW so many men had died that the women had to work and schools came along.

Haven’t researched for confirming sources....

[Kazan]

Republicans Don’t Want to Reform Public Education. They Want to End It

Guilty as charged! End public education!

[seowulf]

After the civil war as you say, small community schools popped up. They weren’t compulsory though. In fact there were areas in the US that didn’t have compulsory schooling well into the 1930’s.

I remember my father telling me that Grandma would tell him, “You head off to school and learn something, but be home by noon. We have corn to hoe.”

[T Ruth]

In the Northeast most of the private schools are even more leftist.

Part of the reason for that is that the leftists have captured the accreditation agencies and use the accreditation process to force leftist, nihilist, and anti-Christian doctrine onto the schools.

[T Ruth]

School tax hikes, like property tax hikes (at least in my area) are done on off-month elections with as little public notice as possible.

IMHO that's done to let a small, but hard core group push these tax votes through as quiet as possible.

Exactly.

[T Ruth]

Where I live there are some charter schools. In standardized testing, the charter school students outscore the regular public school students by a large margin.

The teachers' union complains that it's unfair that good students get to go to good schools, while the public schools are "dumping grounds" (the union's words) for poor students with apathetic parents.

According to the teachers' union, good students should be forced to go to public schools so that the schools' testing results will improve.

In other words, the students exist for the benefit of the schools and not the other way around.

[GingisK]

My statement was not to be construed as “nobody”, but rather not enough people to matter. That can be proven to be true simply by looking at the current state of affairs.

[Kevmo]

We should have vouchers that cover your education until you’re a legal adult. If you’re good at school, then that means they’ll pay all the way to college. If you’re no good, you have to pay for the last couple of years of high school yourself.