Public Education = No Choice Education

What scares the NEA and public schools?  Answer:  choice.  Why do some schools fear comparison to other schools?  What will we find out if we study the outcomes the students are receiving?

Now I would say that a lot of the blame for poor outcomes belongs in the homes of students.  Parents that don't care about education for their children will not inspire success in school.  When they don't encourage the kids to do their best and don't demand that they get up and go to school, those kids are likely to have high rates of absenteeism.  These kids are the ones that show up without doing their homework.  They are also much more likely to drop out of school before graduation.

The schools have been used for everything but education for years.  Desegregation was initiated in the schools.  The end result has been very good, but the school system was in turmoil for years in the process.  It led to a huge waste of time and money hauling kids back and forth across town, and that is money that could have been spent on actual education instead.  Then there has been the man made global warming indoctrination.  Our government schools are reinventing the history of our country in books and curriculum.  The liberals that run the public schools are creating a bunch of little walking and talking (and voting) liberals.

First, we have our tax dollars confiscated to run the public schools.  Then amazingly, we have no choice about which school our child attends unless we pay out money for private school tuition.  Of course, you still have to pay school tax either way.  We pay the school tax even if we have no children at all.  We have little say in the curriculum either.

If grocery stores worked like schools, here's how they would work:

• The government would decide where you can buy your groceries.
• You would pay a monthly fee for your groceries that is determined by a very complex formula that is difficult to figure out and expensive for the store to administer.
• The grocery would need to hire several people to keep track of how much each person must pay, and that will drive up costs to the consumers.
• If you choose to go to another store that you like better, you can buy groceries there, but you still have to pay your monthly fee to the other store mandated by the government.
• The assigned store will decide what groceries to stock, and they won't care what you want to buy.
• If the government decides that you should be a vegetarian, then the store will only stock vegetables.
• Your grocery bill will depend on how much your home is worth.  If your home is worth $250,000, then your groceries will cost twice as much as your buddy that has a home worth $125,000.  Of course, you will both get the same groceries.
• The grocery stores will have no incentive to improve service or stock the things you want or even to be open in the evening or on weekends.

Why would anyone oppose school choice?  Wouldn't it be great if you could shop for the best possible school?  How would you like to choose a school that offers an excellent math and science program for your future engineer or chemist?  If your child is interested in vocational or agricultural education, why shouldn't they get to choose a school with that curriculum?

Our MessAPolitico consistently opposes any school choice or competition.  They need to get out of the education business.  Our outcomes and our costs per student would both improve if education was privatized.  Too many politicians are in the back pockets of the NEA.  Schools need to serve the students, not the teachers.  Let your politicians know that you want freedom in education.