Public schools have gotten progressively worse since my day

and they sucked back then. Just not quite as much.

I have heard them referred to as 'union run charter schools' and I do believe the moniker is pretty accurate.

I just read where some teachers are trying to organize little kids to march in support of gun control. 

If that's not out and out illegal, it should be. It's also unethical as hell and any teacher involved in this type of thing should be fired and have their teaching credentials revoked for life. It's just plain wrong to use little kids as tools to achieve a political goal.

I have seen education drop off over the years and schools have reduced themselves from public places of learning to union run charter schools for the left.

Back in my day we were considered a capitalist society but we did study how other governments worked or didn't work. I learned that the most efficient system was a dictatorship. What the Big Boss says goes. It is efficient if nothing else.

I also learned that a pure democracy leaves a lot of people at the mercy of the majority and the cure for this is a constitutional republic with a strong bill of rights.

I was in school when the beginnings of socialism were being preached and had to deal with liberal teachers even back then. I noted that even then the teachers unions had been infiltrated and were starting to become demanding. Of course, the way the hidden muckety mucks in the unions got support of the rank and file is by making them richer.

Back in the day teaching was one of the few jobs with a decent pension. People taught not so much for the weekly or monthly paycheck. It was considerably lower than they could have made in the private sector. People taught because they knew it was a pension for life. Generally the pension started when a teacher just plain got too old to teach anymore. In my day I had a couple of teachers in their 70s.

Times have changed and it looks like retirement in one's mid fifties is becoming common in places. The unions have negotiated that along with paychecks that in many cases are well over what the private sector offers.

Of course, teachers don't really want to lose these benefits.

The education we get from these so-called educators is getting worse and worse as time goes on and the students seem to be getting brainwashed with leftist bullshit more and more as time goes on.

When I asked a group of seniors what they learned in school about the Constitution and got confused looks I needed to know nothing more. Those kids were not getting an education. They were being victimized by a union run charter school.

I think it's time for people to pull their kids out of the public schools and either enroll them in private schools or home school them. Parents should now be screaming at their state and local politicians for vouchers to aid with tuition.

While I am generally a rugged individualist about a lot of things I would have no problem with a state or local voucher system or even a federal tax break for parents enrolling their kids privately. 

When the people that are supposed to be teaching kids stop teaching and start brainwashing them it is time for the public educational system to be given a choice: Start educating kids fairly or be eliminated.

Of course, the parents have to get their head out of their collective asses and stand up to these union run charter school schoolmarms and let them know that their kids are not attending school to be used as pawns for political gain. The parents should also demand they get a fair and useful education instead of a leftist brainwashing. Parents should be demanding alternatives to the brainwashing of the union run charter schools we have now.

As far as the unions go, it won't take too much to break them. You don't give them the opportunity to strike. You simply lock them out and replace them come the next contract negotiation. If you have to, you simply eliminate the existing school system and reopen under a new name with a new set of rules. The Mayberry School System simply becomes the School System of Mayberry.

Of course, if a parent is on the ball they'd elect for a voucher to send their kids to private school or even maybe just home school. That would also likely have a marked effect of the unions.

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My kid sister had the right idea about 15 years ago with her son.

She sat him down and offered to send him to a Catholic school run by Jesuits with a no bullshit you gotta apply yourself and behave promise she got out of him.

I just texted him and asked if he thinks he got a decent education from the (nonunion) Jesuits and he replied that he definitely did.

Why am I not surprised?








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