Dismantle Public Education

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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• children

[StupidCommentsMademe]

Here is my proposal - 10 Grand a year (adjusted for inflation) goes to each child to choose his or her own school require the basic k-8 but after that the children should be able to choose between technical schools or college prep. Not everyone needs college.

Public Education = Great intentions but terrible consequences.

Public Funding Education = Choice by vouchers would encourage education without monopolizing it.

Government is and always has been great at running things....into the ground.

[apjames]

Public education allows all the opportunity for some basic skills....It is not such a bad idea/concept.

[ImAznnn]

The problem is not that the gov controls everything; it's that the gov forgets their role. The role being to serve people not to control them.

If we have direct control over the government, then the rules would be made for the direct benefit of the people since the people would be the ones who make up the rules; not gov bureaucrats.

Education under anarcho-capitalism wouldnt be as efficient as the solution above b/c a) monopolization could still occur and b) education quality would be different

[Mytholgylove]

Also, how do you explain the countless success stories coming from public education, millions of people have risen out of low-income housing, abusive parents and a bad-looking future, through the public education system teaching them the necessary skills sets needed to survive in the real world. I'm a student myself, and I even I, with my limited experience and small number of years can deduce this? Know why? Pubic education! :)

[Mytholgylove]

I have personally seen children attend classes where their potential is actualized through public school classes. And if the only way of keeping a population free and independent is through means of questioning and hell raising, why did you stop comments from being posted on the intro to this series?

[Hperman09]

@Chiszle good? Finally a true European tells unlike some arrogant European i met online who thinks they are ten times smarter than us Americans. I agree, public education need to go away. Before the 1970s, USA had a highest education standards in the world but after the DOE was created under Jimmy Carter and years followed it, education standards in the USA was lower and becomes illegitimate. Even my friend in Canada said that it's getting worse too if not down the same path as us.

[AynRandFanJG]

1. Homeschool your kids

2. Vote Ron Paul

[drwsdavis]

Public schools are most definitely NOT held accountable..by anyone. It is a sad statement on America.

[perdondaris]

The desire to dismantle public education is not to free it but to put it under the direct control of a capitalist plutocracy. Public schools are held responsible by the local communities which they serve. Private schools exist (they have scholarships for poor students who don't have money). Charter schools are wrong because they take public money and use it irresponsibly. I've gone to both public and private schools and I can tell you public schools are better in many ways.

[goatnuts8288]

@5150fob correction: "the are our" ---> that our