The idea that local governments should have almost total monopoly control of education of our children is not only unjust and tyrannical, it is also absurd. Children need education, yes, but they also need food, clothing and shelter. The same poor or irresponsible parents who support the public school apologists do not educate their children without compulsion, can not feed, clothe, or shelter them either.
Yet, we see local governments owning and operating supermarkets, department stores, apartments or houses. Instead, the government subsidy programs food stamp or rent temporary financial assistance to parents who are too poor to provide for their children.
When it comes to education, however, instead of giving vouchers or other temporary loans or subsidies to poor families I know can be compensated Their children's education, we have created a monster-called government-owned and operated public schools. As we noted earlier, millions of parents now pay for private nursery schools, kindergartens, and colleges for their children in a lively, competitive, free-market education.
Most parents who can not afford tuition for their children usually apply for student loans is a bank or government. Yet, for the 1st through 12th-grade education, suddenly government must intervene, treat all parents like idiots or potential rapists of children, own and operate all schools.
For more fully understand the absurdity of this system, imagine for a moment that government authorities and well-intentioned wants to make sure every child has enough to eat, that no child is "left behind" when it comes to food. To ensure this goal, local governments across the country take control of all supermarkets and grocery stores in your area.
Under this new system, bureaucrats now own and manage all food stores, and shop workers become officials of the civil service that can not be fired. Your local government then passes a new "food tax" to pay for these stores and the salaries of workers'. This fee is added to your current real estate tax bill. If you do not pay this new tax, local government officials can and will foreclose your home.
Even with this system, suppose the local Food Board forces you and your family to purchase from a particular shop. I know that you are committed to make purchases in their store, and can not be fired. As a result, they soon become indifferent to the needs of their customers. The store managers can not be fired in order to manage the stores badly. The shops can not fail because they are supported by taxes, so they give you poor service and bad food. If you want to change stores, you must ask permission from your local Food Board bureaucrat, who usually refuse your request. In addition, grocery stores changing not do much because they are all equal, all owned and operated by the same food monopoly government.
If that seems absurd to you, if you would scream bloody murder for having to endure such a system simply to buy food, why tolerate such a system when it comes to education of your children '?
Also, as we noted earlier, those we elect to office are not our agents, our teachers. They derive their powers from our consent. They should represent our interests and follow our instructions. Politicians, bureaucrats, and school authorities therefore have the same right to dictate how to educate our children as a real estate agent has to dictate who we sell our house and at what price.
The following passage from the book by Isabel Paterson, The God Machine, summarizes the appropriate response to local governments and school authorities who think they have the right to dictate how to educate your child:
"The most vindictive resentment may be expected from the pedagogic profession for any suggestion that they should be dislodged from their dictatorial position, but will be expressed mainly in epithets, such as reactionary, as mild."
However, the question for any teacher moved to such indignation, is: Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you or pay for their education? Why do you have to extract fees and collect your pupils by force?
Article Copyrighted © 2005 by Joel Turtel.
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