Dismantle Public Education
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 at
4:39 pm
The real reason our standards in education are falling isnt lack of money but a government monopoly. Learn of the libertarian alternative that could save our children
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There is a stupid loud “Y-R” at 6:01….. Just about deafened me.
Obama will not run for a second term. If he does, the other democrats(republicans) will win. Some other worthless media hog will take his place if America can’t combine together to refuse to vote for the same screw ups. We need a third party to break up this governmental monopoly.
Here, here!
Well, it isn’t going to be as simple as burning down the damn schools, in spite of how pleasing it would be. It will require an intellectual mind, temendous patience, and true desire. It requires getting true power in government and effectively dismantle it from within.
I can’t do it. Public education has fucked me up beyond repair. You will have to go on without me. I can suggest running for president, but you’ll have to wait untill 2016 because Obama’s got the next term in the bag.
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fuck public education. i dont even believe that some families wont be able to afford to send their kids to school. with small taxes by a limited government, and low prices from competition with schools, everyone will be able to afford to send their kids to school. and since school wont be forced on them, kids will actually WANT to go to school. and since its private it would actually TEACH them something. fuck this people, its time for a revolution, whos with me?
OMG. FINALLY EVERYTHING IS CLEARED UP. ive been thinking about this for a long time and wondered why schools suck so much, and how we only learn useless facts. i mean almost all of my real education came from the internet, the only thing i got from spending 12 years locked up in a school is a piece of paper that said i did it, and a three digit number that means how smart i am.
The “socialization” canard has been pretty well debunked. Most -and I base this on nearly 20 years of empirical data- homeschooled children are much better socialized than government school kids. Simply because they aren’t forced stratified into a neat, tidy age group.
I’m so glad someone made a video on this!!! 5 *’s.
The methedology of public education is based on pavlovian psychology. It conditions the consciousness to salivate for knowledge to assimulate. To clap & squeel for an approval seal, & anticipate the shallow joy of recieving an ego inflating “good boy” !! Kids are trained to intellectually memorize while discouraged to think for themselves & intuitively realize. The end result is an artificialy intelligent replicon, divorced from any capacity for individual thought, reciting only what was taught
True that, its a really tough choice, REALLY tough choice. I suppose only time will tell.
I actually agree with you whole-heartedly on that matter. However, you could have them join a club (for instance boy scouts or girl scouts), if you are religious then get them more involved with church activities, etc. I know that these don’t offer as much in the way of social skills, but it will help. It all comes down to whether or not you think what they would miss in forming social skills is worth keeping them away from the political conditioning.
my only thing against home schooling is the social aspect, kids really do pick up a LOT of their social skills in school, be it in a military academy, prep school, w/e kind of school it is they gain pricelss social skills in a non home schooled envirnment.
Steveral studies have shown that children who are home-schooled tend to score higher on tests than children who are in public schools, as well as do better in college. There are other benefits that appear to come from homeschooling that are not related directly to academic abilities. If you can’t afford private schools, keep in mind that home schooling is a viable option. If I have children, I’m thinking of taking that route.
But hey, we still havent fallen into the 2nd world level of education yet…only 2 spots away!. I can only pray that i make high enuff income to send my kids to a private school so that they dont have to learn from 30 y/o public school text books, while we spend trillions ensureing and locking in votes for some politicians next election.
I do agree with you to an extent, but our money management as a country is OUT of control, we dumped nearly 80 BILLION into GM to try and counter the fact that the labor unions are a pair of concrete boots to that company, 180 Billion to AIG…all in all we have spent over a trillion dollars we dont have to buy off obamas votes from the people he bailed out. We could have spent that money on far more constructive things, change?? yes..obama is a new puppet but the same set of strings.
Doesn’t it worry you that the majority of families will send their children to bible schools? I’m all for extending our liberties but don’t children have a right to have a real education? Can someone elaborate on this please?
As for the question of the educational budget, of course you must spend more but not anyhow.
Building huge gyms and olympic swimming pools is obviously a waste of money. But that only happens because it lets local polititions give the money to local building companies. Unfortunately, there are not enough parents who have the courage to object to this.
The money must be spent on more teachers, better teachers, smaller classes, teacher training, school books and boring stuff like that.
Actually the two examples that you give are minorities imposing their will on majorities. The Jim Crow laws stopped black people voting.
Hitler never had a majority his party was merely the largest.
And Collectives are bad! Majority Rule is a form of Tyranny! Jim Crow laws in the South, for example, were implemented because a MAJORITY supported them!
Heck, in Germany, a collective elected Adolf Hitler in a landslide!
Yes, and no. More and more money is thrown into education and healthcare, and it does not get any better!
It is MY education that is losing out!
If I want to go to a different school, is that not my RIGHT as a human being? But no. Because I’d still have to pay for public school too. This system only gives choice to those who can afford it, the rich!
Ignoring hermits who live alone on the tops of mountains, everybody is part of a collective.
When you vote in an election, you should not vote for your self interests but rather for the common good.
I earn more than most people and I am proud to pay more tax as this lets me give back to the community that generates my wealth.
In the last two decades, the rich have not been paying enough tax and education and health care have become a public disgrace.
when we were but a child
ours was the joy of life
and our thoughts sweet and mild
then
according to states rules
they sent us off to schools
where we were catagorized
according to what we memorized
and as we were through the years graded
our secret joys slowly faded
replaced by dry responsibilities
and imposed sensibilities
There is a lot of good stuff to consider here. I think that we need to start thinking about voucher programs.
I took an education class and all the emphasis was on dumbing everything down and removing distinctions between students-group work, no AP classes, grade inflation, simple curriculum. What became apparent to me is that the differences between elasticities and social classes is unacceptable so that only remedy is to lower everything down to the level of the lowest students to get equal.
It seems like a good idea to me, to have a system where individual schools are democratically run by the “stakeholders” of the school – that is, the community which the school serves.
In a properly democratic society, the government would welcome such community democratic control of schools, and would fund it adequately.
I think we are very far from this however.