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Email UpdatesI want you to read this story about two 4-year-olds handcuffed in a public school for not taking a nap. I don’t want you to read it because I want you to hate public school. I don’t want you to read it because I want you to fear public school. I want you to read it because it exposes a lie. One of the bigger lies ever told.
The lie:
You and your children are safest when ‘protected’ by government licensed professionals.
Children are abused, raped, attacked, lied to, and neglected by government licensed professionals in public schools all over the United States. In reality, the government bureaucracy and union protection obscures the problem in ways that would never be tolerated from a private enterprise. Licensed professionals are no safer than any other people. They are people who have problems just like everyone else. They just happened to have the patience to work through all the government and union red tape.
The purpose of licensing is not to insure quality. The purpose is to protect the market from competition. If you want safer/better schools you should demand that parents and children are allowed a full array of free-market choices for education services.
Government and ‘big education’ leads us to believe that only licensed professionals can provide a safe quality education. They are selling safety and failing to deliver. Meanwhile millions of talented intelligent people who would love to teach children are barred from teaching under the guise that letting unlicensed people teach is dangerous. We’re not talking about criminals here… A Ph. D in physics working for NASA can’t teach third grade math without a license. A billionaire entrepreneur can’t teach finance or business without years of schooling and loads of red tape.
It is time to demand free markets, so we can decide for ourselves what constitutes quality and safety.
“Government and ‘big education’ leads us to believe that only licensed professionals can provide a safe quality education. They are selling safety and failing to deliver. ”
There is a LOT that the government education system promises and fails to deliver. As the parent of a child in the government schools, keeping up with the schools and what they are doing has become a full time job. I have to email and call teachers daily to make sure that there is nothing that I need to be aware of because if I relied on them to tell me…..
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Comment by The Lady Logician March 24th, 2008 @ 3:24 pm