PRIVATIZING EDUCATION
Maybe we should begin to think about ways to privatize education in America. Public education is a failed bureaucratic quagmire. The greatest nation in the world boasts of failed public education system. The recent “Every Child Let Behind” brainchild of Senator Ted Kennedy and President George Bush has been “successful”.
PRESENT STATE OF EDUCATION
Children are being indoctrinated by a NEA-approved curriculum using textbooks that include much revisionist American history. There were no true Christians among our Fore Fathers. They were all deists and Unitarians. Yeah sure.
Sex education in many school districts use Planned Parenthood produced material. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the lovers of children, so much so that their chief business is exterminating babies. They promote uninhibited sex to assure a stream of business. Something is wrong with this picture. Abstinence and “saving” oneself for marriage is ridiculed by the educational elite and Hollywood and the record industry and MTV actively promotes a lifestyle that is contrary to what most parents desire for their children.
COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT & PLAN DEVELOPMENT NEEDED
What is needed is a serious unbiased examination of public education. The results would be a clear failure of the present system to teach our children. The solution is not throwing more money on a runaway arson lit forest fire that is ever consuming the brains of our children, but an entire new direction as we begin a new century.
Let’s introduce an expanded voucher program and fund new initiatives perhaps combining limited public education, home-schooling and private or charter schools. Give the parents the support and equip them to design or choose the schooling that would best meet their need. Whatever we are spending per pupil today, provide a voucher and provide parents options of selecting whatever method and means they think would be best for their children to learn: public schools, private schools, home schools, charter schools or some combination. Let them shop competitively.
ESTABLISH CLEAR STANDARDS
Establish crystal clear standards based on best practice nationally and internationally on the basic disciplines and core of knowledge and experience each child should have and filing future needs of the country in terms of vocational and employment needs. This will probably result in a downsized public schools system. Save the best teachers, get rid of the incompetent through teacher testing and raise the standards of public school teachers. Require all public funded teachers to meet new rigid certification standards. Cut the bureaucracy to the bone. Put funds into student-driven education rather than teacher-based union-driven secular humanistic based education.
LIMITING THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT
Get the federal government out of education. Abolish the department of education. Give the power back to the parents to design an educational experience that will meet the unique needs of their particular child. Government should play a secondary role in helping to offer general guidance and provide support for parents and schools in identifying future trends and needs and funding and publicizing best practice activities found domestically and internationally.
CONCLUSION
We need to gradually blow up the current educational system and replace it with a revolutionary new system that is parent designed and chosen student-driven with minimal government involvement other than disseminating best practice information and funding and evaluating innovating approaches and measurement of outcomes.
NECESSARY ACTION
The American educational system is broken and is such a nightmare that no politician on the scene today has the guts to tackle such a problem or take on such a formable opposition in the NEA and AFT unions and federal and state bureaucracies. Neither of the two major parties is principled enough to risk completely alienating any portion of a voting block. Votes are more important than solving problems or doing what is right, unfortunately. That is why we need one or more third parties.
The "No Child Left Behind Act" is part of the problem. It puts even more of your tax dollars and more federal control into a corrupt system which sexuallizes our children, forbids Christian values, and teaches evolution as a fact and not theory. The purpose of the act is to make sure that overall standards must be attained by each race, ethnic group, gender, etc. The states are responding by lowering their overall standards so that everyone is "equal" so that they can get their hands on the NCLB money. (This is the only good thing about in my opinion, because it will give people more incentive to give up on public schools, send their kids to private schools and vote no on school levies.) Here is a link to an organization which I has the right answer for education.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.schoolandstate.org/