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From: LindyBill7/6/2011 12:04:54 PM
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I am enjoying the Liberal reaction to the Atlanta educational scandal. Blame it on Bush and his "no child left behind" program.

What is going on is the inevitable result of five decades of ever increasing rotten schooling. A highly Unionized system that rewards failure. Constant dumbing down of testing to make up for bad teaching.

My conclusion is:

The schools are bad.

They will get worse.

No amount of money can fix the present system.

If you don't agree with the above, you don't understand the problem.

There are four groups involved in our present system. Politicians. School Bureaucracy. Teachers. Parents. The first three groups control the schools. The last one has no real power over them. Yet the parents are the ONLY ones of these groups who have a proprietary interest in the kids learning. The other three groups are there for their own benefit.

The answer is simple. Totally private schools. Financed by tax credits the parents control. All of the debate about which system is "better" ignores the real point. Which is that the parents should be free to choose where their kids go to school. Only then can the schools get better.

The first three groups HATE this idea. Easy to understand why. They lose all power over the schools. They also believe that parents are too dumb and stupid to be able to pick out a "good" school for their kids.

Parents pick out everything else in a child's life. But they can't pick out a good school? Bullpucky!
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