Real Education Reform Leaves the Government Behind

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Among the items awaiting Congress when it returns from its August break is reconciling competing House and Senate bills reauthorizing No Child Left Behind. These bills passed early this spring. Each bill is being marketed as a huge step toward restoring state and local control over education. However, an examination of both bills shows that both provide local schools with only limited relief from a few federal mandates.

The biggest problem with these so-called reform bills is that they do not significantly reduce federal education spending. Congress and the executive branch use the promise of “free” money — which they have taken from the American taxpayer — to convince state and local governments to allow the federal government to control the classrooms. The only way to protect American schoolchildren from schemes like Common Core is to repeal, not replace, the federal Department of Education.

Restoring local control over education would be a good step toward restoring constitutional government. However, simply replacing federal bureaucrats with state, or even local, bureaucrats will not create an education system capable of leaving no child behind.

The key to real education reform is to give parents control over education by giving them control over the education dollar. When parents control the education dollar, schools must be responsive to parental demands that children receive a quality education that meets their unique needs. Therefore, if Congress was serious about improving education, it would defund the warfare-welfare state, which would then allow dramatically reduced taxes. Congress could also end the Federal Reserve, thus freeing middle and working class Americans from the regressive inflation tax.

In order to make parental control meaningful, parents must be able to choose from a variety of education alternatives. Thus, private schools, religious schools, and homeschools must be allowed to compete in a free market without government interference. This would allow parents to choose an appropriate education for their child.

The growing popularity of homeschooling has already created a thriving market in homeschooling curricula. Working with a team of scholars, I have developed my own homeschooling curriculum. My homeschooling curriculum provides students with a rigorous education in history, math, English, foreign languages, and other subjects. The curriculum is designed to benefit both college-bound students and those interested in pursuing other educational or career opportunities.

The curriculum features three tracks: natural science/math, social sciences/humanities, and business. Students may also take courses in personal finance and public speaking. The government and history sections of the curriculum emphasize Austrian economics, libertarian political theory, and the history of liberty. Unlike the curricula in too many government-run schools, my curriculum never sacrifices education quality to ideological indoctrination.

The curriculum is free for students from kindergarten through fifth grade. Families with a student above the fifth grade pay $250 a year, plus $50 per course.

I am offering three special deals to allow parents to see if my curriculum is right for their child. One is an academic boot camp, designed especially for college-bound students. This is a six-week course that should help students raise their grade point average by at least a full point.

The curriculum is also offering special courses in phonics and mathematics for preschoolers. Both courses consist of 40 video-based lessons designed to teach children basic math and reading in two months.

If you are a parent searching for an appropriate homeschool curriculum for your child, please consider enrolling your child in my academic boot camp, my preschool mathematics program, or my preschool phonics program. Go to ronpaulcurriculum.com for more information.

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Wip
Wip

Ron Paul is that voice…voice of experience. Like a grandparent that people don’t listen to. Sad because, in my opinion, he has more correct answers than anyone else.

Capn Mike
Capn Mike

He’s only in it for the money!
That K thru 5th grade free is just a come on.
For you dolts out there, this is called sarcasm.
RP is the RD (real deal)

kokoda
kokoda

How do parents learn about this program? I’m with RP – anything to get away from a lousy education in the public schools, especially in the inner cities.

Westcoaster
Westcoaster

The reason we have “No child’s behind left” is “W”‘s scheme to include his brother into the largesse his position allowed. His brother made literally at least 60 million supplying the “system” behind it.

“Neil Bush founded Ignite Incorporated, a software company that helps students prepare to take comprehensive tests required under the No Child Left Behind act.”

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/01/08/84292/-No-Child-Left-Behind-Neil-Bush-cashes-in-too

TE
TE

Sorry Ron, it isn’t just the behemoth federal bureaucracy that has ruined American education.

It is the continuing goal of turning every individual into one man/one path.

We are all different, we are all skilled in some ways more than others, even the lowest level IQ can be taught to do some menial tasks but not others.

Our government: state, local and federal, have decided that ALL minds can have the EXACT same outcome.

Impossible, goes against both reality and human development, and is probably one of the root causes of much of our anger, frustration and rage that this country exhibits. My nephew is full of rage and depression at being “stupid.” The boy/man is by NO means stupid, his skills are just mechanical instead of instructional. But, instead of producing a capable, adjusted, productive, happy, member of society whom knows his own contribution is needed, wanted and appreciated, he is labeled a failure and WE paid for 14 years of paid-for-life teachers and the likes of the Bush’s, Clinton’s and Obama’s to create his fractured sense of self.

We do not value our children for their own unique talents, we value them after comparing them to others.

People don’t want fixes, they want things to stay pretty-much the same with different results. Which will NEVER happen.

I pray, everyday, that my wee one asks to be home-schooled. Everyday. Moving up to another level of hell this year, it may be the one that finally opens her eyes. I can hope.

And, even having said that Dr. Paul’s article misses a very important (in my mind) point, I would still consider signing her up for his school. Whatever she would learn I would bet the most important thing taught will be how to THINK.

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