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Originally Posted by InformedConsent
Exactly. I already posted the fact that our country's public schools only educate 1/3 of all public school students to grade-level proficiency.
Only 1/3.
Send your kids to public school, and the odds are strongly against them being educated to even bare-minimum standards.
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The Public School System did not fail....you failed.
The Public Schools were intended to be operated as Free Market Communism.
The Free Market is an Economic System; Communism is not...it's a Property Theory.
And everything on this Earth is subject to the immutable Laws of Economics -- no exception.
Here's a Liberal lie: Jeffersonian Democracy.
Jefferson used the word "democracy" about 5 times in his entire freaking life. Jefferson wrote extensively about republics and republicanism. He was smart enough to realize that on a large scale democracy would fail, and so representative democracy is the best alternative. However, he believed that pure democracy could exist at lower levels, specifically at the community level.
That brings us to two important pieces of legislation in your history, and those are the Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787.
There's a large body of evidence to suggest they were aware of the short-comings of the Articles of Confederation and were already looking at a constitutional republic at that time, before voting to make it happen in 1789.
Those two key pieces of legislation laid the ground-work for this new representative democracy.
The Land Ordinance of 1785 created townships.
What two things can you say about townships? They are all the same -- being exactly equal in size -- and they all have the exact same amount of land set aside exclusively for educational purposes.
Introducing...the immutable Laws of Economics.
When your children are educated, you benefit, they benefit and the community benefits. It's possible that larger entities such as the State or the World may also benefit.
How do you go about doing that? Teachers are born, not made. Not everyone can teach; the parent may not be sufficiently educated to teach; there's financial, space and time considerations acquiring the educational resources necessary to teach your child at home; the parent-child relationship may not be conducive to a parent/teacher-child relationship; there are issues of socialization; you'd rather be fishing; or working and making money, or making a name for yourself.
Those are Opportunity Costs. What's it worth to you?
You could hire a tutor, but then the other 100 families in your community are also hiring tutors, and so are the families in the townships adjacent to yours.
You'll pay $10/hour for a tutor? I'm willing to pay $12/hour.....sucks to be you, because you can't afford $12/hour. Another is willing to pay $15/hour.....sucks to be me, because I can't afford $15/hour.
That is an example of Supply & Demand determining wages.
You could pool resources with a neighbor.
Problem is that there is no such thing as 1:1 Teacher-Student Ratio and never could be: the immutable Laws of Economics would never permit it, since it is a grossly inefficient use of Capital.
Get together with 30 or 40 families, split costs, and maybe you could get do it, but then space is now a consideration.
You could all chip in together and buy land and building school building.
But you don't need to buy the land....it's already been set aside in your township for you. All you have to do is review architectural designs, discuss the pros and cons with families in your township and then vote on which one you want.
Teachers can be hired and paid based on Free Market wage/salary rates.
You might not have the time to interview teachers, but you can elect a school board of people to represent you and your interests, hire and fire teachers and over-see the operation of the school.
So, you have property, owned by the community, here a township, hence Communism, using the Free Market to hire teachers and to maintain the structure.
Life was beautiful, until you failed.
You handed the reigns to the first slick talking power-seeking control freak that came along and sold you a paper bag filled with nothing.
And even that wouldn't have been so bad, except that for every power hungry control freak that came along you got on your knees and handed over power and control for free and it didn't matter if they had a (D) or an (R) appended to their name.
Where are you now?
Well, now, there's someone in the District of Columbia -- a bureaucrat (that you didn't elect), whose name you don't even know, you don't know if they are male or female or what their qualifications are, and yet they are writing rules and regulations that affect you and your child's education, impacting the future of you and your child and your community.
This someone -- this bureaucrat (that you didn't elect) doesn't know you, doesn't know anything about you, doesn't know anything about your child or your child's needs or the needs of other families and other children in your community, and doesn't know anything about your community.....and probably couldn't even find your community on a freaking map using GoogleEarth....
....but they're calling the shots.
'Cause that makes so much sense, right?
What do
you know about
your child, and your neighbors and their children and the needs of the people in your little township?
Nothing....right?
How do you wrest power and control back where it belongs?
At this stage of the game, it's civil war or secession.
I don't care if you're immortal and you vote in every election from now until this Universe sighs to a frozen halt in Space.....government will never yield control. That is not what governments do, and that is not the purpose and function government. The sole function of government -- in practice....in Realityâ„¢ -- is to acquire more and more power and control.....and they never yield unless you can bring them to their knees.
Good luck with that....
Mircea
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