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Strike a Victory for Federalism: Eliminate the Public Schools
by Paul Galvin
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But eliminating public schooling, an institution not extant at the country’s founding, would have national implications extending well beyond the boundaries of any one state. Chief beneficiaries would be an overall strengthening, and rehabilitation, of the American federal system and an increase in individual liberty.
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The whole public school “sysstem” is:
(1) Immoral
• Forcibly separating children from their families. The model was to create cannon fodder and factory workers easily led by the elite.
• Indoctrinating future voters to support the government.
• Excessive costs drive senior citizens from their homes
• The “public education” model demotivates the student, “un-involves” the parents, and creates an “education” political force.
(2) Ineffective
• Education results are in free fall; without factoring in all the tricks being used to pump up results.
• Unlike a free market, education isn’t delivered where it is needed at price that can be afforded. It’s political; not market based.
• One size fits all squeezes everyone into the same mold; the smart are held back and the “dumb” are lost.
(3) Inefficient
• The Horace Mann model hasn’t changed with the times; University of Phoenix delivers over the inet, why not everyone?
• Cost per student “educated” is double Catholic, private, or other parochial schools.
• Mandatory attendance, child labor, and licensing laws deprive us of non-academic education (i.e., craft apprenticeship)
(4) Harmful
• Creates “education factories with gun free zones” that are an undefended target rich environment.
• Puts children is a hostile environment where they are exposed to drugs and bullying.
• Some teachers are sexual predators.
• Children are not taught the skills they need to survive in the real world. School life is completely unlike real life.
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