The public schools have become a hopeless trainwreck.\u00a0 The best way I see for escaping this defective system is to provide any parent who wants to opt out of the local public school, with the dollar equivalent cost of the local public-school education as a voucher and let him find a better school.\u00a0 This will serve two purposes.\u00a0 It will better educate the youth of America and it will force the public schools to improve or wither away.<\/p>\n
This will be an enormously expensive undertaking.\u00a0 Currently the budget for primary and secondary public education is in the range of 750 billion dollars a year.\u00a0 But really what it requires is the federal government to fund the initial outlay and then the local governments to repay the federal government for the children that do not attend their local public schools.\u00a0 Of course, the public schools will become a smaller and smaller part of the education system and the states can figure out a way for the tax revenues that currently pay for education to be distributed directly to the parents instead of going through the federal government.\u00a0 And with the competition from other schools the cost of education will most probably be lower than what the public schools currently cost the local towns and cities.\u00a0 After all New York City has the most expensive public school system in the country on a per child basis but the achievement level of all but the few gifted schools ranges from mediocre to abysmal.\u00a0 Competing with it on a dollar basis should be simple.<\/p>\n
The outcome of allowing school choice in the United States would be the largest single increase in the intelligence of Americans since the space race pushed math and science education into the limelight back in the fifties and sixties.\u00a0 Suddenly kids who had languished in terrible schools all around this country, especially in the cities, would find out that they had brains that actually worked.\u00a0 And without the poison of the woke narrative being dripped into their heads kids might figure out that there was more to life than staring at their phones.\u00a0 And with a real-world curriculum, kids and parents would have a common base of knowledge from which to understand each other.<\/p>\n
So, this will never happen.\u00a0 The school teachers are the most powerful voting block in the Democratic coalition.\u00a0 Their privileges are jealously guarded by the recipients of their donations and votes.\u00a0 And it would require tremendous voting change in this country to make school vouchers happen for the general population.\u00a0 The public-school teachers know that if they have to compete against private schools, they\u2019ll be forced to actually teach children instead of doing whatever it is they currently do.\u00a0 That\u2019s a gravy train they\u2019ve been on for decades and they will do whatever it takes to keep it going.<\/p>\n
But the only voting block bigger than the teachers\u2019 unions is the parents of America.\u00a0 Currently the mothers vote for the Democrats in a lopsided way.\u00a0 If they ever came to their senses and voted for their children\u2019s welfare instead of for their feminist vanity then there would be a chance of fixing things.\u00a0 There have been the first stirrings of this in Virginia with the Youngkin revolt.\u00a0 It would require an enormous shift to allow something like school vouchers to become law.\u00a0 Because of this difficulty many people think it is more reasonable to reform the public schools but I see that as a false choice.\u00a0 The inertia of the current population of teachers and administrators in the schools is an irresistible force that cannot be changed.\u00a0 It can only be abandoned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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