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Los Angeles Times: Do away with public schools

JONAH GOLDBERG

Do away with public schools

Government is inept at running schools. It should subsidize education for needy students, then get out of the way. Jonah Goldberg June 12, 2007 HERE’S A GOOD question for you: Why have public schools at all? OK, cue the marching music. We need public schools because blah blah blah and yada yada yada. We could say blah is common culture and yada is the government’s interest in promoting the general welfare. Or that children are the future. And a mind is a terrible thing to waste. Because we can’t leave any child behind.

The problem with all these bromides is that they leave out the simple fact that one of the surest ways to leave a kid "behind" is to hand him over to the government. Americans want universal education, just as they want universally safe food. But nobody believes that the government should run 90% of the restaurants, farms and supermarkets. Why should it run 90% of the schools — particularly when it gets terrible results?

Consider Washington, home of the nation’s most devoted government-lovers and, ironically, the city with arguably the worst public schools in the country. Out of the 100 largest school districts, according to the Washington Post, D.C. ranks third in spending for each pupil — $12,979 — but last in spending on instruction. Fifty-six cents out of every dollar goes to administrators who, it’s no secret, do a miserable job administrating, even though D.C. schools have been in a state of "reform" for nearly 40 years.

The premise of Goldberg is simple: MARS NEEDS DRONES. and, you can have a slave society if the would-be slave is cognizant enough to know they are slaves. Teh first schools in this country were private. No Money, no Edumacation.

The Repbulicans, once again, show their contempt for America and the The American Way. It’s no wonder we are fast becoming a permanent jesting stock to the rest of the world

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