I believe in the right to choose also, but not in the right to choose murder. How about the right to choose what kind of education your own children recieve? My family has chosen not to participate in government education as far as sending our children to those institutions. However, that does not allow us to choose not to participate in the out-of-control taxes that pay for the out-of-control spending for those institutions. We have used homeschooling, private Christian schools, and a homeschool academy as our methods of providing education to our children. Yet, we have been forced to pay for an education system that we no longer believe in along with our preferred forms of education.
So, why the resistance to vouchers for education? Oh, I'm sure you have heard all the phony baloney stories about how it would bankrupt the government education system. Well, first off, good! That's what a broken system needs to do just like a failing business. Count your losses, reorganize, and start over. But, let's not get into mass hysteria here. I'm not really suggesting that we close down "public education". I'm suggesting that competition makes anyone or anything better. You grow and adapt or die. Take the money that is spent on a per child basis and give parents vouchers to spend that money at the school that they think will most benefit their child. Those that believe the "public school" is a better choice for their child will still be able to make that choice. But those, like us and many others, that are tired of putting their children into a "big box store" kind of system with its one size fits all mentality, may choose another form of education. Government education will be forced to examine itself, live within its budget, and learn to give parents what they are paying for.
There's an old saying that goes like this, "If you say something long enough and loud enough, it becomes fact." Well that's what has happened to the education system in this country. We have just mindlessly sent our children into this school system for about eight hours a day with little thought as to what they are actually teaching our children. We justify our actions by saying long enough and loud enough, "My parents went to public schools and I went to public schools, blah, blah, blah." It doesn't matter that we may not believe in the forms of sex education, the re-writing of history, environmentalism, Godless secular humanistic philosphy, or evolutionary thinking (which includes way more than evolutionary science). We just send the kids there to be indoctrinated for eight hours a day, and then wonder what has happened to the youth of our country. We wonder how it ever happened that kids are shooting each other in school, posting idiotic videos of ganging up on helpless victims by bullies, and forms of debauchery that most of us never dreamed of in our whole lives, much less when we were in junior high. How many of you believe you can make up for the indoctrination by correcting them in the time you have with your children after school? Some of you do and you're to be commended for that. But you know as well as I do, most don't or we wouldn't be having the problems we are having.
Along with the voucher system, the Department of Education needs to be eliminated as the wasteful spending entity that it is. We got along just fine without it before its re-creation by Jimmy Carter in 1967, thank you. It existed earlier and in our history, but was soon downgraded to an office. Look at this organizational chart for this monster.
People such as myself have proven beyond any doubt what can be accomplished in education right in the home and in private institutions at a fraction of the cost per child. Through homeschooling and private education, three of my daughters had such high SAT scores that they qualified for grant money to go to college. One of them chose to leave college and devote her life to being a wife and mother. One daughter earned entrance into the Phi Theta Kappa honor society, and another made the dean's list at Regent University in Virginia. My son will be taking college credit courses next year in his junior year. The proof is in the pudding.
Aside from the fact that choosing a different form of education is quite costly, it is rapdily coming under fire. I witnessed a custody hearing today involving a husband and grandparents who were trying to remove three children from the mother's custody because she was homeschooling their three children. It would be one thing if she was an unfit mother, but witness after witness tesified that she was good mother. The only argument they had was that she was homeschooling and over protective. Amazing. Over protective. How have we come to the point where a parent is criticized for doing that which God commands us to do....."Train up a child in the way he/she should go."
You better wake up people. They don't steal rights from you in one gigantic move. It's hundreds of small moves that seem barely noticeable at the time. It's like putting a frog in boiling water. If you dropped a frog in boiling water he would immediately try to jump out. But if you put him in cold water, turn up the heat slowly, he will never see it coming and will boil to death. We are in the water, Americans, and the heat is slowly being turned up. Wake up!
God Bless America!
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