What's worse a parent who fails to home school his child or a Public school system that fails a community?

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On the contrary, consider this: corruption, incompetence, and subversion reach only as far as their mandate. A bad homeschooling parent fails his child. A bad private school fails many children. A bad public school system fails an entire community. And whereas an unskilled parent has the option of seeking help in educating his child, and parents unhappy with a failing private school may take their money elsewhere, a failed public system gives parents little recourse; corruption at the top of the public pyramid quickly insinuates itself throughout the system. A few Marxist-progressives, feeding on the naiveté or stupidity of a few administrators and legislators, can quickly spread their dye through the whole pool, and this dye, so universalized, becomes the color of the community for generations. (Needless to say, that last sentence summarizes the past -- and, in my view, final -- hundred years of modern civilization.) If anything breeds charlatans, incompetents, and subversives, it is the power to compel "standardization."

As I have said before, if Barack Obama wishes to send his children to Bill and Bernardine's house, he is free to do so. The problem is that in a public education system, you are not free not to do so with your children.


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