by AnonymousThoughts

Created on: April 07, 2010

Public Schooling Should Absolutely Not Be Mandatory to Any Age

Absolutely not.  We should not force students to go to school until they are eighteen.  I would go so far as to argue that public schools are unconstitutional.  The one thing that destroys democracy is when government starts favoring any one group of people over another.  Yes, education is an example of the government favoring those young people over everyone else.

Sadly, we seem to have an aversion to using simple principles to help us make important decisions in this country.  What a pity.  You see, when people are given anything that they either haven’t earned or they haven’t asked for, people are rarely going to get something that is good for them.   Public education violates those basic principles.  What about this principle?  When you favor one group of people over another, you create monsters out of the favored group and set them against other groups in their society.  Are the nation’s children not completely out of control?  Are they not set against the values and authority of their parents and other adults in their community?

Here is what a good government does and here is what I would think that “Equal Protection of the Laws” in the Fourteenth Amendment and the prohibition against “Forced Labor” in the Thirteenth Amendment should cover:

1)      Good governments provide services that are equally and directly usable at any time by all citizens regardless of gender, color, age, class, or religion.  Our government first faltered when it began to provide help not only to certain classes of people, but also to people in certain age groups.  For democracy to stay on track, its people must never allow it to fund programs that directly serve only a particular religion, a particular race, a particular class, a particular gender, or a particular age of citizens.  It is by this method that politicians buy votes and it is for this reason that these types of government programs are as unconstitutional as any programs favoring a certain religion or any actions discriminating against a certain race of people.  Good governments build roads and infrastructure, provide mail services, form armies, and create libraries and parks that can be directly enjoyed by or a benefit to ALL citizens.  It must never be allowed to curry favor with any particular group. 

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