What do you have when you have no choice?

Education Failures

They are not all failures. But there are too many.

“The Battle for Room 314: My Year of Hope and Despair in a New York City High School” (Grand Central Publishing) is Boland’s memoir of his brief, harrowing tenure as a public school teacher, and it’s riveting.

There’s nothing dry or academic here. It’s tragedy and farce, an economic and societal indictment of a system that seems broken beyond repair.”
https://nypost.com/2016/01/17/my-year-of-terror-and-abuse-teaching-at-a-nyc-high-school/

Not a single student can do math at grade level in 53 Illinois schools. For reading, it’s 30 schools 

Baltimore parents are speaking out against the city's public school system after it was revealed that 23 schools reported no students were proficient in math. 

How can this be in The Public Interest? There is no shortage of excuses and rationalizations.

“To fix American schools, fix American inequality.”
https://inequality.org/research/america-failing-schools/

“In America, high school is for socializing. It’s a convenient gathering place, where the really important activities are interrupted by all those annoying classes.”
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/education/2014/02/high_school_in_america_a_complete_disaster.html

The inconvenient fact is more money is not the answer. It may well be the problem. Failures are subsidized. You get more of what is subsidized and less of what is taxed.

“Showering public schools with funds has been a costly failure.”
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2016-09-20/more-money-wont-fix-failing-public-schools

Caring can’t be legislated. Nor can effort be decreed. Everyone is not equal. Some people care more than others. Some students apply more effort. Why should these be put in failing schools with those who don’t care, disrupt and even cause trouble? Why must We, the People, pay for failure? The state bureaucracy administering this failure costs about $600 million per year.

Government schools are heavily regulated - "officials say, they are forced to abide by more than 250 unfunded state mandates a year" . These mandates all have a political constituancy. All add complexity and cost. Such laws steal choices and impose someone else's choices. It’s like being told where to sit on the bus. Laws make you do things you would not want to do if you were free. Was it meant to be this way? What can be more valuable than choice? What do you have when you have no choice? You have failing government schools.

Private and religious schools have better results. Often their costs are significantly less than failed public schools. How can non-public schools do so much better without state laws, regulations and supervision? Don't forget, some of the worst schools in the country operate under complete government control. How can that be? Government interference is counterproductive. Competition and choice can rescue children from government failures.

Reject imposed government failures. Resist unwanted decrees. Elect libertarians. Libertarians believe in expanding choices not blind obedience to government rule.

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