The original Federalist article has URLs to the sources of their several good quotes.
Imagine an America where there is school choice and there is no taxpayer supported tenure for any teacher at any level.
School vouchers has been and remains the best solution.
It gives parents / the customer the power.
No one gives a shit unless you hold the power of the purse! Want to see that in action, go to your local USPS office or a VA hospital.
Vouchers scare the public schools and the teachers union.
Imagine that, you need to compete in a market place. That sounds almost unAmerican today.
Today we have government that instead of applying the Sherman Act is working on behalf of big tech, pharma, public schools (de facto monopoly) etc.
Where is the US government regards Google (92.47% of the global market share)? Where was the US government with Microsoft years ago?... Crickets. Today, the US government is in bed with them, having liason officers, providing a little help early on as with Google because they see it as a huge intel opportunity... So government is NOT going to fix this because they benefit from the staus quo, and that is also true with public schools and the massive amount of money that comes in from taxes which they get to manage!
Ironically, it’s not the rich that are imapcted much by paying for a private education, but the middle and lower economic classes for whom $12,000 a year for a private school per kid is a lot.
The school voucher should be for all - fair (no means testing). It promotes competition (quality and efficiency) and caters to the customer (market demands). Unlike the schools today that are basically managed centralized between the federal and state government and really do not offer much in terms of catering to their customers, the voucher would create a more decentralized approach, more diversity (liberals should love that!). It’s actually a simplification of the system.
Vouchers and Charter Schools are a good start...
Government schools violate:
Free Speech
Free Press
Establishment of Religion
Free Exercise of Religion
Free Assembly
They are a First Amendment and Human Rights **abomination**!!!!!
After a while, they were told to lift their heads and see the candy. There wasn't any.
Then they were told to lay their heads down again, and this time ask Fidel for some candy.
Lo and behold, when they lifted their heads, Fidel had granted their prayers to him.
In 1996, Hillary Clinton told Americans “it takes a village” to raise a child. That was the soft sell. Today, we’re getting the hard sell: “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach,” said Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe in a September debate.
It takes an authoritarian regime to raise a child the way they want.
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>> Make them compete for students.
This is also the only way to get back to schools that actually teach their students useful skills, like reading, writing and arithmetic. The whole point of a free market system is creative destruction. You stink at delivering a good product, you go out of business. Our government schools have been divorced from this imperative for generations now, with predictable (bad) results.
Bring on the vouchers!
This is what’s teaching Critical Race Theory and if you think this hater is a rarity, you are not paying attention.
https://twitter.com/shannon_alter/status/1453698078658252802
any Columbia professor is by definition an American enemy
The public schools, as currently constituted, are really seminaries of fundamentalist progressivism.
https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2008/06/ol9-how-to-uninstall-cathedral/
“In a soft reset, we leave the current structure of government the same, except that we apply the 20th-century First Amendment to all forms of instruction, theistic or “secular.” In other words, our policy is separation of education and state. In a free country, the government should not be programming its citizens. It should not care at all what people think. It only needs to care what they do. The issue has nothing to do with theism. It is a basic matter of personal freedom.
You cannot have official education without official truth, i.e., pravda. Most—in fact, I’d say almost all—of our pravda is indeed true. Call it 99.9%. The remaining 0.1% is creepy enough. The Third Reich used the wonderful word Aufklärung, meaning enlightenment or literally “clearing-up.” Every time I see a piece of public education designed to improve the world by improving my character, I think of Aufklärung. But of course, a good Nazi education imparted many true truths as well.”
East Asians, Chicoms and Indians do not care.
Iirc, Japanese are year round students. They don’t care, either.
2+2=4, not 5.