Whitewash the Education System
Is the goal of our education system to prepare our children to enter the job market? Does our current system meet those goals? The government has grant programs for those start-ups looking to improve the American education process and today, investors think favorably of government funding as it does not consume equity in a start-up. The Federal Government, the states and assorted organizations are beginning to spend money to fix it. Their ideas are not all bad, but they haven’t thought the entire problem through. Their mistake, as I see it, is that no mechanism exists in our educational system to spread any ideas that turn out to be useful.
In order to build a stronger, more self-sufficient America, America must first be willing to change. America’s most important challenge is to change its antiquated educational system. Without a strong and revitalized educational system, America will never progress to greatness nor be able to alleviate any of our other ills. What is this “equity” public-school apologists talk about? It means a guarantee that all children get a “quality” education and “equal opportunity” to learn. “In the cruel free-market,” the public-school bureaucrat says, “the rich get the best schools, the middle class the mediocre, and poor kids get left in the dust.” That, they say, is not fair, not “equity.” Our education system has become outdated and too expensive.
The problem is that our public schools are a government-controlled education garbage dump. No matter how much money we pump into them, they will not improve because the foundations of the system are structurally rotten. They will not improve because a government-run system, by its nature, strangles educational quality and innovation. Colleges and universities base their funding on tuition rates, but middle class parents are finding it increasingly difficult to pay for the ever escalating educational costs. Schools in poor districts are very often inferior to schools in wealthy districts. Change is coming whether our educators and government want it or not. We should embrace this change and make educating our children about preparing them for the job market.
Funding for the educational system should be restructured. Public schools are traditionally funded by property taxes which results in a very unequal distribution of educational opportunity. Communities that are wealthy have more funding for their local schools than those who do not. This situation directly affects the quality of education that children in urban and poor rural areas receive.
The Education Reinvention Bill is not just imperative for our children’s success, but for our country’s survival. There is a lot America must do to change for the better and again be a respected force in today’s world. Education reform is just one of many ways we can accomplish that goal. In contrast, if we allow children’s natural love of learning to flourish and an education free-market to blossom, even poor kids, as generations of American immigrants have proven, become middle-class or even rich. The best thing we can do for our kids is to shut down the public-school garbage dumps permanently, once and for all. Let each parent pay for their own child’s education in a low-cost, competent, vibrant, and fiercely competitive free-market education system.
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Yes, I get the part that our schools should be training for the job market, yet what about their humanity? You know, the virtues of honesty, thrift, respect for human life, compassion, etc.? Please don’t come back with church and parents. As far as I can tell some of the best educated people from the ‘best’ families in America just pulled a multi-trillion dollar swindle on the rest of us. First, cultivate a well balanced human being. Second, identify their gifts, talents and preferences. Third, point them in possible directions and assist them as much as you can.
In contrast we could do what we always have done since socialism/cultural Marxism took hold. Ah yes, we just need to tweak the form of the government program; yes, yes, more money and/or another law/bill will do the trick. It’s not that government is the problem, it must be the solution, it must be and any evidence against it and my own eyes be damned. We all know that government is always the solution. Just as we all know that the solution to too much debt is more debt; sure, the solution to too much government control and funding of compulsory and non-compulsory education is more government control of education. Sure the solution to any government created problem or set of problems is insanity.
Anyway, all hyperbole, kidding, and downright insanity and stupidity aside, it sounds like a first step away from the insanity that is government controlled education today; then there is the issue of the students themselves or that that “would remain nameless” (i.e., you cannot create innovation in industry, for example, by replacing Americans with future cultural Marxist anointed ones). That is, it isn’t just government control that has messed up the American system of education, but our immigration policies too (another insane government response – hint, the quality of student has declined as we have imported tens of millions of people and their offspring that don’t act like they are Americans, and tend to test at lower levels than the Americans they have replaced). In short, it is both government run/influenced education and government human replacement policies (i.e., directly impacting the quality of students) that are to blame for the mess U.S. education is in, and this article’s suggestion addresses some of the process part of the issue, not the raw material or student part. To address the student part you need to largely reverse current immigration policy; as the best education system cannot perform well if the students can’t learn and/or don’t want to learn. For example, can you guess what happened to Los Angeles over the last few decades that eroded their test scores relative to say almost anywhere in Iowa? Hum, hum, let me think … The answer isn’t so much teaching method or government control. Hint: It’s the composition of students. In Los Angeles we went from a group of students that was willing and able to learn, for example, calculus to one that largely wasn’t, not so Iowa. Again, it’s the students not so much the system. Sure, government hasn’t helped and it would be insanity to suggest more, especially federal, government control will help matters, but let’s not kid ourselves into thinking that places like Los Angeles will suddenly be able to significantly improve test scores by reducing or even eliminating government intrusion if we keep replacing good students with bad ones. There I mentioned that “which would remain nameless”, don’t you feel better that someone mentions it? Ah, “the truth will set you free.”