http://reason.com/archives/2010/02/18/education-is-too-important-for
Education Is Too Important for a Government Monopoly
It’s time to let parents choose
John Stossel | February 18, 2010
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Since 1980, government spending on education, adjusted for inflation, has nearly doubled. But test scores have been flat for decades.
Today we spend a stunning $11,000 a year per student—more than $200,000 per classroom. It’s not working. So when will we permit competition and choice, which works great with everything else? I’ll explore those questions on my Fox Business program tonight night at 8 and 11 p.m. Eastern time (and again Friday at 10 p.m.).
The people who test students internationally told us that two factors predict a country’s educational success: Do the schools have the autonomy to experiment, and do parents have a choice?
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① The gooferment running “education” is in effective (i.e., students don’t learn).
② The gooferment spends way to much to give us uneducated students (i.e., the taxpayers are going broke).
③ “Public education” was designed by the Prussians to make cannon fodder and factory workers who could be led by an “elite”. That is not what we want or need in America.
④ “Public education” unions are corrupt and corrupt politicians.
⑤ The taxpayer doesn’t feed, clothe, or house children; so why do we have to pay to educate them?
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