It’s time to end public education. As someone who was a licensed teacher, it is evident our system is archaic and isn’t worth the cost spent with little to no positive outcome in the way of how our young adults are exiting secondary education. At the time of this writing, there have been two tragedies, one in Texas and another in Georgia, within a span of a week. People are clamoring for solutions, but aren’t addressing the roots of the problems. The mass killings are only one element or symptom.
When one does history research on public education, it becomes quite evident the end results are products of people who had ulterior motives at the onset. Education, at the beginning, was entirely established by Christian churches. People with strong anti-Christian biases, like John Dewey, creator of the Dewey Decimal System, understood to best undermine the influence of Christian education was to create a subversive program that steadily indoctrinated subsequent generations away from Christian, Biblical principles, values, and morality. For a while, Christianity was tolerated because it was the predominant culture and worldview. The ultimate goal was to eventually drive Christianity out, replacing it with a faux humanist agenda.
Decent people are looking for solutions to our recent tragedies spanning back to Columbine. There is a growing movement to increase security precautions, including, but not limited to: metal detectors, checkpoints, fenced-in (with serpentine wire?) property, armed guards and teachers at public schools. In essence, what the well-intentioned are demanding for is to place our children in prisons in the name of safety. But if anyone looks at prison life, they will discover anything but safety; and definitely no freedom. Who would be punished, but the students? Not to mention our students aren’t leaving the education system any brighter.
The best solution is to dissolve the Department of Education at the federal level and let the respective states determine whether they want a public education system or not. Where there is a vacuum, resourceful individuals, organizations, associations, charities and churches will drive innovation to fill in the gap. The free market and competition will provide better educational opportunities in less vulnerable targeted environments. To be sure, predatory corporations and opportunists will also rise to the occasion, but discerning watch groups will ensure the more trustworthy industrious will be endorsed. But, as it stands, certain corporations, in cooperation with the government, already hold a particular monopoly with the education process; so by dissolving the current system it will open the door to broader opportunities and a rethinking about how best to teach our youth.
It would be disastrous to imprison our children, compulsory at that, because of the threats of rogue individuals. The solution is not to waste more resources on a failing system in more ways than one. One crisis after another draws the same criticisms from one camp or the other, who in turn offer either the same, repetitive tripe that has lasted for more than forty years, or insist on newer draconian solutions that would produce worse unintended consequences. Besides, why would reasonable people want to cede further control to a system that has thus failed to provide for the safety of our students to begin with.
We as a society can no longer remain in the current system that is breaking down, nor can we afford to sacrifice our freedoms in the name of safety because, as one Benjamin Franklin once said, if we sacrifice liberty for safety, then we deserve neither and will lose both (roughly paraphrased).
Our first order is at home. We need to search our own hearts and minds, to stand for what is right, good, and wholesome.
Our second order is to teach our children to revere God and life, which are inseparable from liberty.
Our third order is to value virtue. Without it, our Republic will crumble under the weight of debauchery.
In the end, too much damage has already been done and it will take time to undo the damages; and the cost to reverse course, as great as it might be, will be considerably less compared to the price we are already paying. We have to learn how to suck it up to make the necessary sacrifices in order to bring healing and restoration to our ailing society, if we can only find the courage to do so.
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