Sign On to National School Choice Week 2012!
by Dr. Susan BerryNational School Choice Week, a grass roots effort, will be held this year from January 22-28. Activities and events sponsored throughout the nation will focus on effective education options for all children and support of school choice options in all states. This is an opportunity to educate local school boards and state legislatures about the need for education reforms that empower parents to choose the best educational environments for their children, whether those environments are public schools, public charter schools, magnet schools, virtual schools, private schools, homeschooling and more.
If you own a business, company, or farm, sign in to sponsor National School Choice Week. Ask your local educational parents’ organization to be a sponsor and, perhaps, to host an event or activity focusing on school choice. Share this video with your local school boards, private schools, and parent groups.
Imagine a country in which our children’s first memorable experience of liberty and freedom is their parents’ ability to choose where and how they are educated, without the intervention of government! Their mindset from there on in will be: How can I make sure my liberty and freedoms are protected?
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School choice and home schooling may be our only stopgap measures for restoring quality education prior to outlawing public sector unions.
Exercise your government intervention-free school choice by making a wise decision about where to rent or buy a home if you have or are going to have children. But unfortunately, even if you do that to get your kids into the better public schools, they are likely not going to be taught how their liberty and freedoms are protected according to the constitutionally conservative limited government model. Unless we do something about the leftist indoctrination of today's educational system, they will be brainwashed into thinking that more government is the answer and that liberty and freedoms must necessarily take a back seat to the needs of big government.
the time is soon coming when the considerations on buying a home include whether the home is in a district with a CHARTER school……
National School Choice would mean absolutely NOTHING without a National Right To Work Amendment to the constitution to accompany it!
As long as unions are allowed anywhere in government children and society will not be safe from leftist socialist "administrators", indoctrinators and propagandists.
Randomly cutting off bits and pieces of tumors will not suffice in eliminating the primary cause of this 100% fatal cancer called socialism and there is only one viable permanent cure…
Ridding ourselves of GOVERNMENT UNIONS forever!
Groups that attempt to change the public view of the current state of education in this country are to be commended for their efforts. They face an uphill battle on this subject, however. The article does not address the vitriolic hatred for these reforms that the established education system does not attempt to hide. Any of the valid viewpoints given are met with pushback from the school district administrators in charge of the various federally-funded Title Programs. Even the local and state funded programming is subject to state requirements, which are in turn mandated by federal authority. If the state takes money for educational purposes, then the state and its school districts must comply with the federal rules for expenditure and utilization. The administrators make sure that the district is in compliance. The district is not adaptable to anything that the public desires, unless it is in step with the federal mandates that are tied to the money that the state and district receives. Therein lays the problem. . .
In order for great ideas as expressed in this article to work, the federal funding must be eliminated completely, or at least returned to block grants which the states can use for the purposes that they feel are proper for the individual districts. Most of the more objectionable mandates are funded through the federal Title programming. As a former district school board member, I was not even allowed to vote on, or change any portion of the Title programs. They are beyond the reach of locally elected members. The federal Department of Education must be eliminated and the states must be allowed to regain control in order to make the changes needed for such wonderful ideas to flourish.
Putting pressure on local school boards is a start, but unless the dominating federal role in education is stopped, nothing will change. . .
posted in wrong thread my apologies.
Say what you will about him, but Ron Paul is right about killing the Department of Education. The reason so many Americans believe in Big Government is because they've been educated in public schools dependent on an unconstitutional federal agency.
Yeah, let's destroy the last remaining part of education that is still functioning – private schools. Great plan.
I have frontline experience as a public school educator. I confronted federally-mandated reams of paperwork, state-mandated machinations of seemingly endless standardized-testing, the top-heavy administrative bureacracy, the leftist educational philosophy, the cultural hostility to the very notion of education among some, and above all, the general declining lack of societal parental skills.
I then had the good fortune to join the faculty of a private school. A much smaller class size, a more committed (and not just finacially) group of parents, the elimination of both paperwork and bloated bureacracy, and above all, a sense of free-market competition with like institutions that drives all private schools to excel.
To quote Lincoln Steffens (irony intended), "I have seen the future and it works".
But I must offer a caveat. Education begins at home. But many of those homes are simply too dysfunctional. Thus our educational woes go much deeper than mere educational restructuring. This is a crisis of the family, of culture, of language.
For the future to work, society must change.
And that, my friends, is way above a private school history teacher's paygrade.
Its hard enough being a God fearing parent of a public school student: after correcting their History books, editing their grammar, reconciling the social, political and cultural clap trap they are taught with their catechism, then you sometimes may even have to withstand the scrutiny and criticism of having the courage to do so.
Who in hell's the parent, me or the school board?
I bought my land 10 years ago, right after my first son was born. The fact that it was in a county where all the schools are Charter schools (Charter School District) was definitely part of the reason for the choice.
What ARE you babbling on about?
The ONLY people who will be against this are people from the Anti-choice Party (Democraps).
Why bother. Liberals want to keep them stupid!
"National School Choice Week, a grass roots effort…"
I stopped reading there. It's an AFP/Koch funded sham. Thanks for the laugh, though.
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