PJ Media

You may have all the platitudes and slogans you like, but you still haven’t touched the core of the issue. So-called public education is a govt monopoly…plain and simple, not even debatable. If you think our education system is healthy(and I mean for the majority, not a select few), then you are obviously a product of the system, or a union rep looking out for your “educators”. There are a multitude of reasons why our education system is dysfunctional…but we have to start with the basics..putting competition back into the system. There has to be an incentive, a motivation to get this done. At present that does not exist. If the govt is going to take more and more money from our pockets then we should be able to send our kids to the school of our choice…period. I’m paying for it so I demand a quality product. We are not getting what we pay for…and again, how much? It should cost anywhere from 5500 to 15 grand to give a child a quality education? Are you kidding me? We are getting screwed without the courtesy of a reach-around. You govt. school-types have had your way for decades now..and your way is not working. It is time for a change, a new direction, new ideas. The status quo of throwing more and more money at it, state after state starting Lotteries to improve education..just won’t do anymore. It’s time to let go of Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Toothe Ferry, and public schools. They all served a purpose at one time or another but eventually we have to grow up and deal with reality in reality.

If Al Gore, George Bush, and any other politically connected family can send their kids to the best schools then the single mother living in inner-city Chicago, Boston, Philly, and anywhere else should have that same opportunity. It is time for a structural change in the system, not more We can’ts, and we shouldn’t. Don’t tell us what you can’t do, show us what you can do. If vouchers isn’t the answer, if it’s not choice then what? Don’t tell me more money, that’s BS and you know it is. Don’t tell me school uniforms, don’t tell me smaller class-rooms….and stop it with the “every child needs a computer” song and dance. How about let’s make sure the child can read and write before we throw them a keyboard with letters and numbers. Stop telling us choice advocates what won’t work, show us what will. But until you are willing to deal with the competition aspect of this you won’t come close to making a positive difference. And to the unionites out there I know you won’t care until the kids start paying union dues….not my words, but the words of one of your own……..