Reason #3,281 Why American Education Stinks
When Big Education nutjobs aren’t busy indoctrinating your kids with BS, making them stupid, or making them fat, they’re fighting to make sure it’s illegal for you to educate your kids yourself.
In California, where over 150,000 kids are homeschooled, an appellate court has ruled that parents don’t have the constitutional right to homeschool their kids.
It’s not hard to see why they would rule this. If you educate kids yourself, the cat might get out of the bag that homeschooling is more effective than public education, and the government will have less control.
Don’t believe me? Ask John Stossel:
homeschooled kids routinely outperform government-schooled kids academically. In 2006, homeschooled students had an average ACT composite score of 22.4. The national average was 21.1.
The danger in having the legislature clarify the law is that the legislature is controlled by politicians sympathetic to the teachers’ union, which despises homeschooling.
Of course the teachers’ union despises homeschooling - their phoney jobs depend on it. Don’t forget that public teachers are just government employees who suckle at the sweet, nourishing teat of the taxpayer.
I don’t have a degree in logic, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night. Tell me, where’s the inconsistency here:
- Teachers say they care about educating kids.
- Homeschooling gives kids another option in education, and options are usually good.
- Oftentimes, homeschooling gives kids a better handle on things than public education.
- Teachers want to outlaw homeschooling.
Something’s a little inconsistent, huh? Could it be that teachers are more interested in protecting their cushy jobs than educating children? Remember that when they try to take the moral highground and say “but it’s for the KIDS!!!”
But why is education the business of government? It’s taken for granted that the state is every child’s ultimate parent, but there’s no justification for that in a free society. Parents may not be perfect — some are pretty bad — but a cold, faceless bureaucracy is no better.
Preach.
If public education is so great, it would do just fine competing with other options like homeschooling. Just fine. If teachers did a great job at educating kids, they shouldn’t be afraid of competition because it would give them an opportunity to show what they can do. In fact, if they cared about kids, they should welcome competition as a way of motivating them to do better. “Sure, let them educate kids at home - our kids will blow them out of the water.”
But instead teachers freak out about competition. What does that tell you?
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