Education in this country is a nightmare. We spend lots of money and time, hire teachers, staff, build schools, maintain buses, etc. It costs a ton of money, billions and billions. We have a Department of Education that spends 10s of billions to give money to the states every year. But, with all the money, education gaps are widening, we're falling further behind other countries, and graduation rates are not rising. Plus, if you follow the logic of our leaders in Washington, we're just too stupid to understand the policies they pass 'on our behalf.'
My proposal, stop educating us. Just stop, close all the schools and universities, fire all the teachers. We're clearly too stupid to think for ourselves. We need to be told what we can and cannot eat, what level of healthcare we need, what to drive, how to worship. If these uber smart wizards in DC are regulating every aspect of our behavior, why do we waste the vast resources, that are clearly not helping, on education. Think about the money we would save and could just give to our dear leaders. Then we could have a very standardized educational regimen, where the leaders would come on TV and teach us what we need to know. Think of the additional money they could throw at all our ills, the reparations to the countries and peoples we have wronged, the social engineering, the trough they could provide for us to eat their slop from. What a wonderful, ignorant society we could be.
The blueprint is there, and the elitists and statists keep telling us that their agenda is too complex, we just don't understand, it's hard to simplify and quantify the wonderful accomplishments. Well, why are we so damned stupid? Who has sent us into this moronic tailspin? And, you may say it's a conspiracy theory, but don't you find it a bit interesting that education unions support the statists, who support increasing funding to the teachers, who then do not improve the educational standards?
Bernie Madoff is on line 1 for you Ms. Weingarten, and he wants to applaud you for your legalized graft and ponzi scheme brilliance. If you're as disgusted as I am with the quality of education available to your children, go to your place of worship, your local diner, a parents group and start to see if you can devise a plan to home school. Starve the beast and educate our children the way they deserve to be educated. You don't need to do it full time, you can find like minded parents and share the burden, especially since this government makes it nearly impossible for a parent to stay home and raise children (and I don't think that's a coincidence either). If they permanently corrupt our children, we're done, period. Wake up, take action and take back our future!
Quite honestly, I think your plan is overkill. :)
ReplyDeleteI pay property taxes to support the public school system. I send my two children to a private school that costs me an additional $3,000-5,000 per year. The average cost of educating 1 public school child in Indiana is $10,400 per year per student.
A simple voucher system that allowed parents to choose which school your child's tuition goes to would decimate the public school program entirely.
As it stands, I have two children which would entitle me to $20,800 per year toward the education of my child. With that kind of money, I could pay their tuition and afford limo service for their ride to and from school for the year.
THAT, is ridiculous!