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*Author’s note: No amount of public-service bandaids will ever replace proper parenting. At best, a school can only reflect the values of the community which it serves. Why are suburban schools so often called “good” schools and urban schools labeled as “bad” schools? We need only take a look at the type of communities in those areas. That being said, some reform is possible and indeed vital to the development of healthy young people.
The problem with public education is that it is public (i.e. government bureaucracy). In the history of government, it is hard to tell where private enterprise hasn’t done better, or wouldn’t do better, than its tax-payer subsidized counterpart. From a Constitutional standpoint, the government exists to protect its citizens natural rights and that’s about it. Somehow or other, though, this basic premise has been expanded to include mandatory education, income tax, social security, alphabet agencies, healthcare, welfare, and most recently, masks, lockdown, and vaccinations. If the Founders could talk, they would say little more than “To arms!”
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