Vouchers are necessary to break the back of the NEA and school board policies devoid of common sense and common decency.
"Vouchers are necessary to break the back of the NEA and school board policies devoid of common sense and common decency." Yeah but, who issues those "vouchers"?
Just get rid of the NEA and put control over all schools back into the hands of the local community.
Remember when one recieves FEDERAL money, one gets ALL the strings attached. See The communist manifesto, plank # 10.
Tenth Plank:
"Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production."
(Gradual shift from private education to publicly funded began in the Northern States, early 1800’s. 1887: federal money (unconstitutionally) began funding specialized education. Smith Lever Act of 1914, vocational education; Smith Hughes Act of 1917 and other relief acts of the 1930’s. Federal school lunch program of 1935; National School Lunch Act of 1946. National Defense Education Act of 1958, a reaction to Russia's Sputnik satellite demonstration, provided grants to education's specialties. Federal school aid law passed, 1965, greatly enlarged federal role in education, "head start" programs, textbooks, library books.)
(Research source: Encyclopedia Britannica.)
"Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves."
William Pitt
See also The Government Doesn’t Belong in Television
I agree that vouchers for private schools and homeschooling are the only way to counter the education mess and the power of the NEA.
It's going to be a tough, hard hill to climb. Most parents give in to the current system because of ignorance, ambivalence or because they just can't find the money, energy or time to fight it.