I worked in a small private school for several years, which scraped by because of its excellent reputation for getting results for students with learning differences. The relationship between parents and schools that you expect in a marketplace of rights-respecting private schools is precisely what happened in our case. Usually, the proprietors could work out the "occasional localized skirmishes" without losing students and their families. But when that wasn't possible, parents could and did bail, taking their students and tuition money with them. That this last resort was always an option kept the school's faculty and administrators on their toes, and made everyone on the staff very responsive to parents' requirements and suggestions. If only the parents of our students didn't also have to pay twice: once for our tuition, and again for the public system that failed them and their children in the first place: That school might have eventually flourished, helping more kids who needed it, instead of being too financially weak to suffer the usual slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, and too dependent on financial subsidy from wealthy benefactors who had their own ideas about what the school should be, in conflict with those of the founders.
Government IS force. It is necessary in it's proper place, but make no mistake it is going to use force to enforce it's rules if it is in charge. In education that means whoever is in charge of the School Board is dictating what your children are learning. The only way you can insure your children are learning what you want them to learn is for the force, i.e. the government, to be removed from the equation. Until people understand this fact, most of them will be unhappy to angry over their children's education.
Right on, Anders. Like other corrupt institutions, government education will only be defeated with a "bottoms-up" cultural revolt. Like Brad Thompson says, "Just Walk Away" from government schools.https://twitter.com/cbradleythomps1?lang=en
I worked in a small private school for several years, which scraped by because of its excellent reputation for getting results for students with learning differences. The relationship between parents and schools that you expect in a marketplace of rights-respecting private schools is precisely what happened in our case. Usually, the proprietors could work out the "occasional localized skirmishes" without losing students and their families. But when that wasn't possible, parents could and did bail, taking their students and tuition money with them. That this last resort was always an option kept the school's faculty and administrators on their toes, and made everyone on the staff very responsive to parents' requirements and suggestions. If only the parents of our students didn't also have to pay twice: once for our tuition, and again for the public system that failed them and their children in the first place: That school might have eventually flourished, helping more kids who needed it, instead of being too financially weak to suffer the usual slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, and too dependent on financial subsidy from wealthy benefactors who had their own ideas about what the school should be, in conflict with those of the founders.
Government IS force. It is necessary in it's proper place, but make no mistake it is going to use force to enforce it's rules if it is in charge. In education that means whoever is in charge of the School Board is dictating what your children are learning. The only way you can insure your children are learning what you want them to learn is for the force, i.e. the government, to be removed from the equation. Until people understand this fact, most of them will be unhappy to angry over their children's education.
Right on, Anders. Like other corrupt institutions, government education will only be defeated with a "bottoms-up" cultural revolt. Like Brad Thompson says, "Just Walk Away" from government schools.https://twitter.com/cbradleythomps1?lang=en