“Parents must help effect change in the system by refusing to send their children to these broken institutions.”
That doesn’t work; here in the NYC metro area “parents” went a step further and stopped breeding - and our government simply imported student bodies from abroad.
After the whole Elian Gonzalez thing, why do you think our government is allowing “unaccompanied minors” across the border? Because the public school teachers’ unions need clients, and everyone who makes a living clothing/housing/feeding people needs those clients as well...
I agree, however, what you say makes my point. Education is just a symptom of a deeper problem. Conservative Christians, like myself, have stood by and allowed our country to sink to this level. Please understand, I am blaming you and the rest of the Freepers just as much as I blame myself and all of the Christian Conservatives I know. It is my fault and all right thinking citizens’ fault for not standing up and stopping this nonsense a long, long time ago. We may be to the point, as others have suggested, of doing away with the entire idea of public school and starting over with something new. Maybe it is even time for individual states to secede from the union and have two separate countries. I am sick to my core when I think of what my country has become.
You have perfectly described the education-social welfare-complex. The whole rotten system employee millions of people.
One of the major reasons that so few churches run private schools is:
1) They minister's spouse works for the government schools.
2) In most counties the government school district is the largest single employer with the largest payroll in the county! No other business comes close. Add to that the vendors to the schools and their employees. Even my dentist and his 5 employees depend on government school dental insurance funding a major portion of his practice. So?....What minister is going to bite the hand putting money in the collection plate.