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Surely this is the most frustrating issue on the political landscape. Countless thousands of words are expended (and the time it took to write them wasted) in this endless pursuit of presumed or asserted subjectivities.

Why cannot we simply raise two questions and demand that all debate first conform to them, at least to be reasonable, useful, and productive?

1. By what right is government in schooling?

2. Given no good answer to #1, how on God’s earth will we finally fix something so universally seen as being in such a state of universal chaos.

Look, government schools are an unmitigated disaster. They have no constitutional right to exist (if we have the simple integrity to not throw around “welfare” casually while completely ignoring “unenumerated powers”, that is.)

So. Vouchers? The mother of all red herrings. Vouchers as fodder for the legislatures to fight because it means losing a degree of political power? Even worse. Vouchers as examples of begging government — ourselves, ostensibly — for our own resources back? The height of folly.

Drop it, gals, it’s a false pretense and a false dichotomy. This non-debate is tantamount to asserting one crystal ball over another. If this is really a debate, like the poster said, than test them. If you can retain your self-respect.

Government schools should be declared unconstitutional by the SCOTUS — they’re instilling a powerful overall philosophy, what many call the secular religion postmodernism, one deeply harmful to the nation. Further, there is that matter of there being no prior right for them to exist. At the very least, all choices of education should be voluntary as should be, naturally, their funding.