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Add to FavoritesIt is time to get the control of our schools back. It is time to get them out of the hands of the government once and for all. Our children's education is at stake!
The government, some decades ago, decided that they wanted to bring education to the vast majority of the people. So they spent civilian money and created schools and hired teachers and bought books and literature and all was right in the world. Fast forward to 2009. The United States has one of the worst averages in education and one of the highest dropout rates when it comes to public schools. How could this have happened? They put so much money into education, (four times what we put into national defense) there should be no dropouts at all, or at least very few, right?
Logic dictates that money is not the solution. The government has given teachers a goal. A percentage to achieve in graduates. This rule has been created in order to lower the dropout rate. That should work, right? No. Now the teachers decide to lower the standards of their education and give students a free pass so their salary will continue to grow, making the test's easier or practically giving away the answers. There is no incentive to educate the students other than to keep one's job so the teacher's don't have a reason to care. They don't even get paid very well to do what is one of the most important objectives in the country which is to educate the young.
Giving local control to the schools will change most of these problems, but some believe that going to school will become more expensive. This is quite a possibility but if the education of your child is at stake it should be worth every penny. That kind of money will go directly into that school resulting in increased expenses on education like books, computers and laboratories. The teachers might even get paid what they are worth as well with actual raises based on proper quality testing and high graduation rates that could all be controlled by the owner of the school. That person, in turn, wants to make sure that the parents are getting what they are paying for for fear that children will be pulled out of that school resulting in a loss of revenue.
This brings me to another point on local control. The owners of these schools will be competing with eachvother on education, costs, and dropout rates along with national recognition. Competition has always and will always create a better system, a better player, a better team or company in this country. Why not a better school? If one school fails to bring the children in, then that simply means that there is a better one out there with better opportunities. With our current system, there are no real better opportunities unless you go to private schools. A lesson to be learned, maybe.
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Local control of schools is a default condition; although one may believe the educators and administrators are programmable robots operated from a distance-from the state capitol or the national capitol perhaps-the local functionaries of the mass educational system are in control even if they have sacrificed their personal will to the Borgs of Mass Educational indoctrination. So what can be done to transition the mass education system of the United States from the 'no child left indoctrinated' policy of the Bush administration in order to let 'a thousand points of light emerge from the oppressive nimbus clouds and fog scudding their way over the thought of those needing education'?-simple.. .let each parent choose to send their children to alternate, private schools instead of public schools, at government expense.
Private schools should not need to compete with the mass, corporatist, commune indoctrination centers of youth. Mass education is a benefit to primitive agrarian societies, yet mass education instruction becomes counter-productive in a post-industrial society driving out of business or aborting from conception phase a vast number of education small businesses.
Mass education in the social sciences and humanities means that the youth of the nation are weak intellectually with just a few politically correct surveys of fields that comprise in effect, indoctrination in education that will best serve the interests of concentrating globalist wealth and corporations. A good history teacher hasn't got the freedom in mass educational public institutions to select his own material to present to students. If an individual with an M.A. in history who has read for decades from world historical archives hasn't a right to choose for himself what he wants to teach,l in conjunction with the approval of a local administrator-then he may as well be reading from the communist party list of the old Soviet Union. Mass education in America increasingly makes the American public school system like that of the former Soviet Union with support for corporatism rather than communism being the goal.
For thousands of private elementary, secondary pre-college schools to emerge in the United States the federal government must get out of the education business except for paying for tuition for private school students-after all an educated public is requisite for a competent modern society and school attendance is mandated by law. Most parents cannot afford to pay taxes to support a public school and still pay tuition for a private school for kids-governments should allow accredited private schools to receive equal pay for students transferring from public schools; and a serious effort should be made to phase out the U.S. Soviet style mass educational facilities in favor of creating thousands of jobs for independent private educators and administrators. Diversity is strength in mass education and urban physical infrastructure-where as mass conformity is weakness intellectually that reduces the intellectual health of the nation to a sort of gravy train for the masses.
Learn more about this author, Gary C. Gibson.
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