My Kids Deserve Better

California now has a $16 billion deficit. Here’s a way for California to close the budget. Shut down all the public schools, permanently. The public schools throughout the  country are a disaster. In California they are a super-disaster. Millions of California kids have literacy rates below 50%.  Drop out rates hover near 50% in many cities. Millions of “graduating” high-school seniors can barely read their own diplomas.

The solution is to go back to the way America was BEFORE we had these wretched public schools. The first public school started in Massachusetts in 1859. At that time, the average literacy rate for kids and their parents was about 90! (excluding slaves, who are forbidden to learn to read). Before the first public school was created, most parents taught their children to read at home. The same for teaching them “ciphering” or arithmetic.

Today, public schools that get an average of $7500 to $8500 per student from your real estate taxes, can barely teach millions of children to read or do math.

So, the natural question is, why on earth to we need public schools? Why not shut them down, permanently. Give each parent back the thousands of dollars in real estate taxes they now pay to involuntarily “support” these wretched public schools. Then let each parent educate their own children as they see best — either through homeschooling, at a low-cost private school, or any other way they see fit. This would create a vibrant, free-market education system, like the free-market food system we now have that lets parents choose whichever supermarket or grocery store they buy their food from.

This free-market education system would give parents unlimited, low-cost education choices on how and where they want to educate their children.

The solution to California, and all other states huge deficits? Get rid of the public schools, permanently. Shut down these incompetent education dinosaurs.

Parents, what do you think?