Posted on 01/01/2016 11:56:25 AM PST by BruceDeitrickPrice
Sort of a New Year's resolution...
For many years I've focused on education reform; that work will continue. I have more than 400 articles on the Internet and over 3,000,000 views/visits on YouTube and various sites [e.g. FreeRepublic]. To find education articles and videos, simply enter your interest in Google with the name Bruce Deitrick Price. It's an easy way to find a lot of material quickly. You can assume this material is intelligent, practical, lucid, conservative, and intended to help every student advance as far as possible.
During 2015, I was constantly struck by two main trends we need to reverse. First, the Education Establishment continues its work of dumbing down the public schools, using a broad array of weird theories and methods. I started to think this phrase all the time: the fix is in. That is, we're being attacked from every direction. One group comes up with bogus approaches. Another group launches a PR campaign to tell us how wonderful these cons are. Another group raises money to attack anything in the way. Nothing is left to chance. This ruthless redundancy was clearly seen during the Common Core Debacle. Which reminds us of the little good news there is: the bad guys don't always win. If the public fights back, the public can prevail.
Which brings us to the second sad trend. Our community and political leaders, our movers and shakers, all the people who should be helping the public to fight back, are silent and useless. From the Chamber of Commerce and the Ivy League universities, through all the official education groups, to the major religious organizations, what are these people doing? As far as I can tell, not much. Please, if you are a member of any organization, encourage that organization to be better informed, to take stands, to agitate for better public education.
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Along with the education work, I'll be busy on literary projects. Please see my literary site www.Lit4u.com for information about the five novels now available as e-books.
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Step one: Get the Federal government out of it completely.
Public education IS the problem.
I’ll go 1 step further, get Government at ALL Levels out of the Education Business.
Get ALL government out of education.
There is no saving public education. You should be writing hundreds of articles and making videos to encourage parents to homeschool while we still can. That’s the best hope.
Burn it.
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As a single dad, I sent all four of my kids thru private schools, all while paying taxes for public schools. Other than college, not one of them ever attended public schools. I sent three to public colleges (sadly, left wing) All of my kids are grown, youngest 32, oldest 45. I ended up with one bad apple, but the other three are extremely successful due to hard work and their education.
Step 1. Get rid of fedgov doe.
That is all.
”The great mass of the articles on which impost is paid is foreign luxuries, purchased by those only who are rich enough to afford themselves the use of them. Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers [emphasis added].” - Thomas Jefferson: 6th Annual Message, 1806.
Also, a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified that Congress is prohibited from appropriating taxes in the name of state power issues, essentially any issue that Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers, intrastate schooling in this example.
”Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” - Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
So patriot voters need to work with state and local lawmakers to stop Congress from stealing local and state revenues in the form of unconstitutional federal taxes, revenues that could be used to pay for intrastate schooling without the feds ”help,” and kick corrupt Congress out of the intrastate school business.
The federal government’s role in K-12 has to be removed altogether, the Department of Education closed and the LBJ office building that houses it bulldozed away and made into a parking lot.
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