blehhhhh...
The problem isn’t that public schools are public - the problem is that said system is required to accept and keep all kids - even those who do not wish to be there, those who are continually disruptive, those who are criminal. THAT’S the problem. Find a way to eliminate the majority of undesirables and you have the environment you want.
And, so you know, Thomas Jefferson himself advocated for free education.
Help rid the schools of losers - either by choosing a charter, private, or home school. But it’s silly to blame a non-existent problem.
-—And, so you know, Thomas Jefferson himself advocated for free education.-—
The more I learn about Jefferson, the less impressive he becomes. His abridged Bible is ridiculous, and I’m hoping that his “ten commandments” were meant as a joke.
> And, so you know, Thomas Jefferson himself advocated for
> free education
Yes, that’s nice, but it’s not a constitutional mandate. The right to be secure in my person, my home, and my effects *IS*.
Payment for the government school collective is compulsory, and is accompanied with “compulsory attendance” laws.
THAT’s COMMUNIST.
Parents should be allowed to direct the education of their own children. Are there parents that will neglect this responsibility? Sure. But how is FORCING them at gunpoint to put their children in the school, dropping standards to lowest common denominator, and forcing EVERYBODY ELSE to pay for it any better?
Liberty MUST BE the FIRST principle!
Jefferson also said. “To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”
I have taken the option to educate my own nine children still at home.
Why should I be compelled by threat of force to pay for the propagation of Communism, anti-Americanism, Islam, the Planned Parenthood agenda, the Gay agenda, Evolutionism, Global Warming, Values Clarification, and a vast array of other ideologies and agendas I disbelieve and abhor?
The United States is not, and probably never was, a homogeneous society. It is impossible to have a truly “public school” where ideologies, morals and standards accepted by virtually everyone can be taught.