I do believe that the government ought to get out of the school business.

As time passes I keep seeing that government seems to be more and more incompetent at almost everything they do.

I am looking back at the school system I went through on the 50s and 60s the education I got was pretty sad, all things considered. Songwriter Paul Simon wrote "When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all."

Back then there were still a couple of teachers there that worked not at teaching a student what to think, but how to think. I was lucky to have these few Old School teachers but they were the minority. By the 60s the educational system was already on the downhill slide as far as politicalization of the school is concerned.

It seems as of late that a lot of federal agencies have been weaponized by the existing government. The IRS is supposed to be a fair non political organization as is the FBI, BATFE, the DOJ and several other organizations.

All of these are supposed to enforce the various federal laws without any political leanings yet for the past several years they seem to have become the muscle for whoever is in office. For that matter, many of the people in the various organizations have been left behind as moles of a sort from previous administrations. This is just plain wrong. 

Government agencies are supposed to serve the people without any type of political bent. They are supposed to be entirely non political.

Same holds true of schools but even back in the 60s the educators were liberal and were starting to push the liberal views down the throats of the students. I can say based on what I see it has gotten an awful lot worse. At least back in the 60s the educators at least tried and play lip service to the basics and we did learn about the basis of government and the Constitution.

These days the schools are getting more and more socialistic. They are not supposed to be political at all but seem to be going further and further left by the week. 

That's not what they are supposed to be doing.

When you add the tenure system and the powerful teacher's union along with the NEA and you have a politically based organization running the schools.

The truth is we would be better off dissolving the Department of Education and simply privatizing education. It would keep the government out of education and that is almost always a VERY good thing. If not totally privatizing education then it ought to be brought down to a local or county level, but by no means higher than a state level.

Heavy privatization would tend to make parents pay more attention to what their children are learning and it would also give the schools the right to throw out any kids that didn't behave which is something that should have been happening all along. 

I do believe that if we took this route and either pushed schooling down to a local level or privatized it entirely that a lot would happen.

First of all the kids would start getting a decent education. It would not take too long for competition to make that happen. Privatization means competition and competition generally means both improvement and lower prices.

Another thing would probably happen, too. A lot fewer teenagers would be getting knocked up because they would start being held responsible for getting their kids educated.









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