All you need is school choice. Whether you do the stupid "voucher" trick to assure people you're not defunding education, or simply reduce taxes by the amount currently put into public schools, people should be able to use their money to send their kids to a school that promotes their values. People will not naturally centralize their schooling at the state or national level. It will be community schooling. Decentralization is anti-Marxism. The way that this happened is the locus of power moved from the schoolhouse to the statehouse to the bastards in Congress.
Before somebody say: you left out poor kids, well, taxes are currently being taken from someone to fund poor kids' education; I don't propose to change the fact that some parents subsidize others. Rather, change who controls the money. Catholic schools, for instance, do quite a good job of providing for poor students as is. Teachers are charitable people. They will provide if given the power.
I agree on that one. Choice, including the choice to not pay into the system you choose to not use, would not only give people enough money to afford these choices but also go leagues into balancing the monopoly problem that creates the cancer of public school.
Heck even a repealing of truancy laws would go miles into it. It still baffles me that the government was able to just pass a law saying "we own your kids for a significant portion of every day and you will face consequences by not letting us take them" and people just let that exist.
People consider it some sort of magnificent achievement that everyone has to go. That's why I'm careful about saying just treat it like any other service, because apparently people think literacy is what makes first world countries. Of course, the fact that a lot of students are functionally illiterate does not support their hypothesis.
I also think that there would be even more kids running wild if they didn't have to go to school. I don't know what you do with them. I guess you can pass a law that they're not allowed out and then arrest their parents. In the COVID era, the kids have been out, so I guess your reaction depends on how bad you think that's been.
All you need is school choice. Whether you do the stupid "voucher" trick to assure people you're not defunding education, or simply reduce taxes by the amount currently put into public schools, people should be able to use their money to send their kids to a school that promotes their values. People will not naturally centralize their schooling at the state or national level. It will be community schooling. Decentralization is anti-Marxism. The way that this happened is the locus of power moved from the schoolhouse to the statehouse to the bastards in Congress.
Before somebody say: you left out poor kids, well, taxes are currently being taken from someone to fund poor kids' education; I don't propose to change the fact that some parents subsidize others. Rather, change who controls the money. Catholic schools, for instance, do quite a good job of providing for poor students as is. Teachers are charitable people. They will provide if given the power.
I agree on that one. Choice, including the choice to not pay into the system you choose to not use, would not only give people enough money to afford these choices but also go leagues into balancing the monopoly problem that creates the cancer of public school.
Heck even a repealing of truancy laws would go miles into it. It still baffles me that the government was able to just pass a law saying "we own your kids for a significant portion of every day and you will face consequences by not letting us take them" and people just let that exist.
People consider it some sort of magnificent achievement that everyone has to go. That's why I'm careful about saying just treat it like any other service, because apparently people think literacy is what makes first world countries. Of course, the fact that a lot of students are functionally illiterate does not support their hypothesis.
I also think that there would be even more kids running wild if they didn't have to go to school. I don't know what you do with them. I guess you can pass a law that they're not allowed out and then arrest their parents. In the COVID era, the kids have been out, so I guess your reaction depends on how bad you think that's been.