The Decline and Fall of Private Education

There's something the U.S. government doesn't want you to know. And it's come out again in the new Heritage Foundation report on education. It conveys that the general public is increasingly dissatisfied with public schools, with a rising number opting for private education.

The report explains that during the 2007 and 2008 legislative sessions, 44 states introduced school-choice legislation. And in 2008, choices for private school were enacted into law or expanded in Arizona, Utah, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana and Pennsylvania. Today 14 states and the District of Columbia offer voucher or education tax-credit programs that aid parents with sending their children to private schools.

But that may be short-lived... [snip]

So its [D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program] cancellation is not a result of costing too much, because it's half the price of public schooling. And it's not because of inferior quality, because the kids enrolled in the program were scoring higher than students in regular schools. There's only one reason Congress canceled it, and it comes down to this: federal control and educational indoctrination...[snip]

The reason that government is cracking down on private instruction has more to do with suppressing alternative education than assuring educational standards. The rationale is quite simple, though rarely if ever stated: control future generations and you control the future. So rather than letting parents be the primary educators of their children -- directly or by education choice -- government wants to deny parental rights, establish an educational monopoly run by the state, and limit private education options.

It is so simple any socialist can understand it. As Joseph Stalin once stated,

'Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed'...

Is it merely coincidental that the private choice and home schooling was outlawed by the Soviet state in 1919, by Hitler and Nazi Germany in 1938, and by Communist China in 1949?

Parents deserve educational choices; choice is what this country was founded upon. Anything less is insulting to our republic, whose Founders created a system of freedom, choice and minimal government intervention.

[Defend it or lose it.]

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