COVID-19 And The Surrender of K-12 Education

Townhall.com ^ | April 23, 2022 | Glenn Moots

[Kaslin]

If a face can launch a thousand ships, then the masked faces of K-12 schoolchildren should launch a thousand class action lawsuits for developmental disabilities, educational loss, and emotional and psychological damages since 2020.

Even if those lawsuits are a longshot, however, Covid bullying has at least launched thousands of parents into action. Remote teaching has given them a window into the increasingly ideological lessons funded by their tax dollars. Parents are therefore seeking not only educational alternatives for their children but political alternatives to the enablers of the status quo. This is happening not only in local school board elections, but statewide elections (Virginia), and soon in the 2022 midterms.

Americans may care about K-12 education more than they have in many years, largely by asserting parental rights against centralization, bureaucratization, regulation, and subsidies. Asserting these rights should enable market-driven solutions to free educators, parents, and teachers from the status quo. Most importantly, it will mean that more children can reach their potential and good teachers can be freed to do good work.

The broad strokes of reform oblige decentralizing and deregulating. Recent federal loan forgiveness for students scammed by degree mills demonstrates that accreditation is no protection against shoddy education. Accompanying de-credentializing will abolish the one-size-fits-all-credential for teachers in public education that props up rent seeking by monopolists facilitated by so-called schools of education. Such hatcheries of “professional educators” have become a hub whose spokes of woke politics extend from higher education into K-12, corporations, consulting, and entertainment.

[ClearCase_guy]

Government should have absolutely nothing to do with Health, Schools, or Church. That’s Body, Mind, and Soul. No government control.

[Billie Bud]

For their to be real change in how education happens in this country, parents will have to change their lifestyles.

In the end, for real change to happen, sacrifices will have to be made via career changes so parents can be involved in their children’s lives. No new school board member, new mayor, new Governor, new congressman, or New President will matter if public education is not completely overhauled with parents being at the forefront. Most don’t want to take the “burden” of overseeing their child’s education because most Americans really don’t understand what that would look like.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

You're on point. This nation was founded and meant to operate under local control, but people resist exercising it. It's actually an uphill battle against human nature, the propensity to abdicate oversight and responsibility over to someone else to handle what appears to be mundane tasks - which is a mistake. When it comes to civic matters there is no such thing as "mundane". It's always a rude awakening when they find out they are supposed be that "someone else".