Public schools are failures
Whenever government involves itself in our free market system,
disaster happens. Today, our public education system continues to
require more of our tax money while producing declining academic
results and increasing social problems. The government’s only
solution is to throw more of our tax money at the system.
Public schools are failures
Whenever government involves itself in our free market system, disaster happens. Today, our public education system continues to require more of our tax money while producing declining academic results and increasing social problems. The government’s only solution is to throw more of our tax money at the system.
Our free market provided nearly all educational needs from colonial days until well into the 19th Century. Home schooling, one-room schools, and private schools flourished without the benefit of government subsidies or directives. The products of this free-market approach somehow managed to transform a supposedly backward wilderness nation into the envy of the world.
Today, many Americans mistakenly believe that the public school system is an integral part of our form of government. They cannot conceive of its elimination. What they fail to recognize is that separation of school and state is not a revolutionary development in our history. It is a welcome return to our philosophical and cultural roots. Go to www.thenewamerican.com for details. Search: schools.
The only viable solution is to separate school and state and return to a tried and proven free market in education. Then we would have many school choices, pay no school taxes, and pay only for the education of our own children. Charity would provide for the poor.
Robert W. Van de Walle
Granada Hills
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