Public schools are Un-American

-compulsory attendance laws force parents to send their children to public schools. These laws presume that the politicians we vote into office, our agents have the right to take the liberty of parents' and inalienable rights.

Compulsory education means that America, contrary to common belief, we no longer live in the land of freedom. Local and state governments claiming the right to education of our children also claim, in effect, that possess the minds of our children, and lives for twelve years. This is a terribly arrogant demand, especially in America.

One reason public schools get away with murder, education, year after year is because local governments violate the liberty of parents 'and parents' rights with impunity. Local governments are not liable to run grocery stores, car showrooms, office supply stores, or pre-schools and private universities in America. Yet its public schools and 1 control through grade 12 education in America.

Do government officials have no right to dictate how we educate our children? To answer this question, we must examine what our founding fathers understood to be the true function of government. In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson clearly stated the moral nature and purpose of government:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, that to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed .. .. "

The Declaration of Independence states that we have natural rights as human beings to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." It establishes the principle that we, the people, acting individually and by free consent, created our government only to protect and secure our natural rights as human beings. This feature is only legitimate government.

Reconsider the sentence of the Declaration says, "Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." The "Government" means all persons, not just some, not a minority, not a majority. This means that all citizens, including parents, have the same inalienable rights.

This phrase means that the government is our servant, not our master. It means that we as free human beings, voluntarily grant limited powers to the government for a specific purpose, to protect our natural rights. This means that the government should have only those powers specifically granted to it for that purpose.

However, nowhere in the Constitution is the word "education" mentioned. The Constitution did not give the federal government any right or power to control how parents educate their children. Implicitly, the governments of states have no right or power or because such power would violate our fundamental freedoms.

Nature and Justice confirms that parents have the right to decide who educates their children. As parents of all species, most human parents protect and nurture their children and teach them the skills and knowledge they need to survive. Parents in all cultures make teaching their children a priority. From literacy and numeracy skills are necessary to thrive in a modern society, it is obvious that most parents will find a way to teach these skills to their children if the means are available.

Article Copyrighted © 2005 by Joel Turtel.