PJ Media

This is way too entertaining….really, it is. I get labeled “anti-public school” by anti-capitlists….too funny. Exactly who compiles all information on public schools….hmmmm..let’s see, public education proponenets and employees? Yes, I believe we have a winner. Why don’t we let the fox guard the hen-house? And the one response was particularly delicious…”no one is preventing a single mother from sending her kids to Sidwell”. Only the entrenched public school monopoly and it’s politburo. I’ll say again, I’m open to any reform that instills competition, that breaks the govt. monopoly and puts parents and teachers in control, not administrators with unlimited access to the tax-dollar. I’d start by walking into a school and ask do you teach children? If the answer is no, then you are fired. This is only a slight exaggeration, the point being to elminate waste and bloated employee rolls.

It’s just as I suspected, most attacking change on this post are part of the establishment, and may be part of the problem. The teacher’s unions have done a fabulous job convincing their members that any proposed change to the current monopoly is a “personal attack” on teachers. They are convinced that only they have the purest of motives and that they know what is best. Meanwhile another year passes with more kids left in the lurch. It’s no more an attack on teachers than an anti-biotic is on the patient…we’re going after the source of the ill-ness. The system is broken, has been for sometime, this I see with my own eyes, not with the help of anyone with an agenda. For those who refuse to see, well, this isn’t new, we as a nation have become those unwilling to deal with problems. It’s much easier to deny any real problem, just throw slogans and money at the problem and wait for the votes to be counted. I don’t believe for one minute that any proposal is a panacea, whether it be charter, home-school, vouchers, or any other option….but I know when reform is needed and I know when it’s time for change. The concept of govt. schools must be taken down and the concept of competition put in it’s place. That is the start we need, to eliminate the cabal that is govt. schools. It is utterly amazing how competition makes everything and everyone elevate their performance but somehow that concept is anathema to education. Put aside your special interest and devote yourself to ideas that make the system work, that elevate the minds of your students. Be open to new ideas, not knee-jerk in your reaction. And finally, quit taking every new idea as an attack on you personally.

Someone used the word magical to describe choice? I beg your pardon my friend, but it is not I who still holds onto the santa claus that is govt schools……..