Guest Post by Ron Paul
A Florida bill restricting classroom instruction regarding sexuality in kindergarten through third grade has become the latest culture war skirmish.
Supporters of the bill say government schools have no business being involved in this type of instruction with young students. They make a good point. The use of government power to indoctrinate children in certain political and social beliefs — regardless of the wishes of parents — is a major problem.
While the instruction at issue in Florida is associated with efforts of leftists, the temptation to seek to achieve ideological objectives through education policy can be strong among conservatives as well.
The Ohio legislature is considering a bill similar to the Florida bill. Because the Ohio bill applies to private schools participating in Ohio’s taxpayer-funded school voucher program in addition to government schools, conservative legislators supporting the Ohio bill are vindicating the warning of conservatives and libertarians that allowing government to subsidize private school tuition would lead to government control of private schools.
Other conservatives are trying to force schools to adopt a “patriotic” curriculum. This is just as pernicious as leftists’ efforts to force schools to teach critical race theory. Students indoctrinated in critical race theory will graduate believing that white male capitalists are the source of all evil. Students indoctrinated in “patriotism” will graduate believing every bit of propaganda sponsored by the war party and will smear all dissenters from the “party line” as unpatriotic spreaders of disinformation from Russia or whatever country replaces Russia as global enemy number one.
In a free society, parents — not politicians, bureaucrats, or teachers unions — would control education. Parents would decide whether and when their children’s education will include topics like sexuality, race theory, and the evidence for and against Darwinism.
Parents’ demand that their children receive a quality education reflecting the parents’ values could be met by a free market if the government got out of the way. A free-market education system would provide parents with a variety of options, including religious and secular private schools, community-based schools, and homeschooling.
People searching for a quality homeschooling program that incorporates libertarian ideas without ever sacrificing education for indoctrination should look into my homeschooling curriculum.
The Ron Paul Curriculum provides students with a well-rounded education that includes rigorous programs in history, mathematics, and the physical and natural sciences. The curriculum also provides instruction in personal finance. Students can develop superior communication skills via intensive writing and public speaking courses. Another feature of my curriculum is that it provides students the opportunity to create and run their own businesses.
The government and history sections of the curriculum emphasize Austrian economics, libertarian political theory, and the history of liberty. However, unlike government schools, my curriculum never puts ideological indoctrination ahead of education. Interactive forums provide students with the opportunity to interact with their peers outside of a formal setting.
I encourage all parents looking to provide their children with an indoctrination-free education to go to RonPaulCurriculum.com for more information about my homeschooling program.
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The plane has already hit the f’n mountain Dr. Paul. Where were you 6 decades ago? Oh…better late than never….NOT REALLY.
Commercial.
Which makes this even more insulting to those who remember what America used to be. Whores.
We will never even begin to turn this country around without the abolishment of government schools.
Yup. The “Free Market” will fix it!
It is always Gov’t entities like Disney that try to groom your kids.
Forget school board meetings and elections, just buy Disney and fire the CEO!!!
(Isn’t that how it works today?)
Yes, Paul the free marketeer misses the boat on that one.
I’ll go one further. Privatize the whole stinking mess. Make schools compete for students and teachers. Let the market determine salary, not the state. Let the schools (and their parents) determine the curriculum. Abolish the taxes that fund the Leviathan, and let parents decide how much they want to contribute to their children’s education and assess what is of value to them.
The libertarians act as if there is no nature, no consensual reality, no culture, no nation. The goal of every nation should be to reinforce what is true, normal, and healthy for their people and to organize socialization systems to promote those things and to denigrate anti things. A school would do that. Thus, patriotism is a vehicle to reinforce what is good about a people. Our problem is not teaching patriotism, it is that the American nation has become corrupt and illegitimate.
100% wrong. Government only has one legitimate function, and that is to protect the peoples rights.