Patriots Voice Homepage “Public Schools” Are At It Again

What else can we expect from a “Socialist (Public) Education System,” other than failure to educate, and abuse of, children, parents and taxpayers? It was the policies of Stalin and Hitler to control the education of the young in government owned, operated and controlled “Public Schools.”

We have to understand one thing, if we understand nothing else. Jefferson established UVA, not because he “loved education” but because he “loved” government owned, operated and controlled “public schools.” He hated William and Mary where he graduated, precisely because it was in private hands, and he did everything he could to weaken and destroy it. Bad Alumni, he. We have to understand that our socialist roots go way back. J. was a fan of the Socialist French Revolution, not of our Constitution, which he opposed. There is no way we can understand how to fix our present problems if we don’t know their origins. All our Founding Father were not good, some were bad, and Jefferson was one of the worst. There were wonderful Virginians, like John Marshall, George Washington, George Mason, Madison, and Randolph of Roanoke, but Jefferson was not one of them. They all opposed Jefferson on many things and many disliked him personally and considered him a man of low character. They had to work with him because he always had the rabble at his back. He was an early demagogue. Jefferson’s story is one of the keys to understanding how we have drifted into error. It is no coincidence that William Jefferson (Clinton) and Thomas Jefferson share the same name. Now, let’s look at just one consequence of their “error.”

It was in Communist and Nazi Government Owned and Operated “Public Schools” that children learned to hate and kill, other races, religions, and nationalities. It was in these Communist, and National Socialist Worker (Nazi) Schools that children learned to turn in their parents to the police for all kinds of things. It was in these so-called “Public Schools” that children were brainwashed by the State to make them robotic clones willing to do anything “Big Brother” told them to do. Do we want the same thing going on here?

Our government controlled “Public Schools” today, bear no resemblance to the original idea of public schools in America. They are neither public nor schools. The public schools of our early history were different. You would have a single school, often with a single School Board for just that school, or at the most a small district with a couple or three schools.

These earlier School Boards were completely in charge of these schools. They had little or no interference in how they ran their schools by Socialist City, County, State or National Governments, much less the infernal UN. No one told them who to hire or fire. No one told them what textbooks to buy or reject. No one told them how to discipline the children. No one told them how to raise the money to finance the school. No one told them what to teach or whether they could pray or not. No one told them anything what so-ever.

In fact, these former public schools functioned and operated almost exactly like private schools today. No wonder we liked them and have revered them in our memories. Those former public schools were controlled by the parents and taxpayers of the district where they were. There were no “nanny” guidelines and threats of jail from Washington DC. No orders to do anything from anybody. If we could return that that kind of public schools then 90 percent of all our problems would disappear.

There was no NEA Labor Unions bossing the schools and teachers around and going on strike at the drop of the a hat, and suing the school over everything one could imagine. There were no teachers Labor Unions protecting incompetent teachers, and there were no parents running out and getting lawyers to sue the school over a thousand things. And thank God, back when we had Civil Liberties in fact, we had no damned ACLU.

In short, the public schools that we thought were good are now totally a thing of the past, and if we want them back we have to go to private schools to return to the same level of parental involvement and taxpayer rights, and services to children. Present day public schools cannot be fixed, repaired or restored and any attempts to do so will only make them worse.

We need to junk completely the idea of “public schools” in order to get back to parent and taxpayer controlled schools that serve the children. The only way to do this is through complete privatization. Give the children vouchers and let competition produce the education parents’ want. If someone is worrying about religion in schools, put in the proviso that no denominational religion will be taught in schools. We can get all the Bible teaching we need at home and at church. To get this passed, this compromise is worth it. There are only a few religionists that feel they must teach their particular brand of religion in school. Let them pay for it themselves. Let’s not dirty up a voucher with religions’ fighting over who gets how much money to expand their churches. Let’s have only one string tied to the voucher, that it not be used to teach a particular brand of religion. If the school teaches religion academically or a free and equal basis with all religions being taught then fine, teach religion as an academic thing. But if one denomination insists on using my money to spread its particular denominational beliefs then people are not going to like that. Let’s not hold education reform hostage to some religion wanting to use taxpayer dollars to subsidize the spread of their own brand of religion.

My great grandfather was a landowner, of some worth, in southern Indiana and the first thing he did was to donate 5 acres of his land and built a school on one corner of it and a church on the other corner. They were called respectively, “Mud Pike School” and Mud Pike Church.” There was separation of Church and State of a sort. The Church taught the Bible and the School taught the 3 R’s. (R) eadin’ (R) itin’ and (R) ithmatic, and there was “Peace in the Valley for you and for me,” as the old church hymn has it. Then came the Socialists and their fellow-travelers, and the ACLU, and the “Nanny” state, and they destroyed “Shangri-La.” We must get it back in some modern form or die as a people.

Dump public schools and allow children and their parents the same freedom to choose for K-12 that college students already have. Even higher education needs some privatizing and leveling of the playing field. Instead of the State subsidizing education at government owned, run and controlled Colleges and Universities, we need to give vouchers here too, and let the students of the state, choose to attend private schools on an equal basis with public Colleges and Universities.

Right now the taxpayer is subsidizing Socialist state schools and the children have no choice. Instead let’s subsidize the child not school bureaucrats, and let him or her and the parents choose the school they want to attend. Children and parents can spend the taxpayer’s money, (which is their own anyway,) with greater wisdom than any bureaucrats and government school administrators have.

Let the children and their parents decide how to spend the taxpayer’s subsidy. If the money passes through the greedy fingers of the labor unionized teachers and bureaucratic school administrators they will steal half of it before it ever gets to the students, and spend the remainder on things to harm the children. It is like hiring the fox to guard the henhouse. Let’s have some old fashioned “Power to the People.” “Let the People decide how to spend their own money.”

A TYPICAL EXAMPLE OF SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT ABUSE OF OUR CHILDREN IS DETAILED IN THIS ANNOUNCEMENT PUT OUT BY AN ORGANIZATION THAT IS FED-UP WITH SOCIAL ENGINEERING, WHICH HARMS CHILDREN, CARRIED OUT BY PUBLIC (GOVERNMENT) SCHOOLS AT THE TAXPAYERS EXPENSE.

Have Your Child’s College Achievements Been Sabotaged By A “Close The Achievement Gap” Policy?

Academic deans at the University of Pittsburgh were told that their budgets would be cut if they failed to bring the grades and graduation rates of minority students in line with those of non-minority students. Does your child’s college also have a policy of making sure that gender, ethnic, and other minorities get grades and have graduation rates that match those of non-minority men at the school? Does it achieve this goal by inflating the grades of minority students, by deflating the grades of non-minority men, or both?

How does this policy affect the chances that non-minority men can graduate on time, or even graduate at all? How fair are the grades they get? In states where this policy is enforced at the grade school level, educators afraid of losing their jobs if they cannot show “the achievement gap” is closing have falsified grades.

Isn’t “closing the achievement gap” a goal that can only be realized at the expense of those who are high achievers? Isn’t an arbitrary environment a threat to all students?

At American University no-minority graduate students who have completed all the courses for a Ph.D. have been stonewalled in attempts to go forward with writing a thesis. No theses, no Ph.D. – another step towards “closing the Achievement Gap.”

At the University of Virginia where academic deans have the responsibility for graduation rates, if a student does not graduate in four years he must get permission from five university officials for any course he takes thereafter. He must get the signature of (1) the Director of Undergraduate Programs, (2) the person who certifies graduation, (3) his major advisor, (4) the course instructor, and (5) his academic dean – who was responsible for making sure that he graduated in four years! Each of them, therefore, has the authority to derail the career of any of these students by refusing to sign the form. Why does UVA have such a barrier to graduation? Does UVA have a “close the achievement gap policy? What kind of advising are students getting that is keeping them at UVA beyond four years? How can children protect themselves from destructive college policies and practices?

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