◼ WHY PUBLIC EDUCATION IS SO CONTENTIOUS - Neal McCluskey/Human Events
Public schooling politics is a zero-sum game: all people pay in, but only those with political power get control. That is exactly why public schools drive such vitriol and anger. It is like politics generally, but with the emotionally charged, added stakes that people’s children and, often, their basic values, hang in the balance. Making matters worse is that basic decisions about crucial questions—including who is held “accountable,” how, and what children will learn—have for roughly 50 years been increasingly made at the federal level. As a result, people who want something different can’t move to another district or even state. There is no more flight. There is only fight.
...Ultimately, understanding why public schools are the source of unceasing conflict—and why it worsens the more that control is centralized—requires the simplest of logic: One government school system cannot possibly serve all, diverse people equally. And the higher decision-making goes, the more diversity the monolithic system quashes.
Government schooling essentially guarantees war without end, and increasing centralization only puts peace further out of reach.
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◼ Attention, parents: Common Core opt-out form available HERE - Michelle Malkin
