Dear Friends,
It seems to me, those of us who want to help our kids, need to write letters urging our state legislators to offer and support bills creating statewide education vouchers. One ugly truth that 2020 has shown us, is that the US education system is not about educating our children, but indoctrinating them. The more we spend, the worse the outcome. Graduates today cannot read a face clock, cursive writing or a map. New math has taught them that addition and subtraction is too hard for humans… that it is best left to machines. Moreover, their concept of history is viewed through a fun house mirror. The cost to benefit ratio of our education system, gets more and more skewed to higher cost less benefit, every year. Isn’t it time to try something different? Something that will work?
I was watching a Jordan Peterson video the other day, when the guy he was interviewing, Theodore Darlymple said, “It costs the British taxpayer 100,000 pounds to educate someone in England…” and they are essentially ignorant after that astounding amount of money is spent. How pathetic is that? Twelve years of schooling for 100k. That is 8k a year. Imagine what the private sector could do with that money? Create schools dedicated to the advancement of the student, not the educator’s wealth, leisure and hedonism. The students that would benefit the most would be those from poor families. Private schools catering to troubled youths could clean up… and save those kids in the process. Instead of wasting that talent, poor kids would be pulled into society and become a benefit to us all.
The Wuhan flu panic and subsequent school shutdowns illustrated, in neon, that the public school system does not care a whit about the kids. From the first days of the CCPandemic every report has said children are not susceptible. They do not get it, they do not pass it and they are not a threat to gran. Despite the science being unassailable, our political leaders, media and NEA conspired to steal a year of education from our children. Did they reimburse a penny of taxes in the districts where the schools were shut down? Of course not! Taxes probably went up! They failed utterly, and the consequence was a year off, with pay, and a raise. If I had been rewarded so handsomely by my failures I would be the richest man on Earth. Doesn’t that suggest we need to find a better way to educate the tots?
The NEA, and indeed the entire education establishment, will counter that under a voucher system, the public schools would lose the “good students” and be stuck with the “bad students.” Others will argue, the public school system would lose so many students, they would cease to exist. Still another argument against education vouchers, is that they would pigeon hole students, instead of give general education. The first argument, classing students as “good” or “Bad,” is, on its face, an attack on the students. Anyone with that attitude shouldn’t be anywhere near education. The second, based on the existence of the public schools, is premised on the notion the children exist to serve the schools, backwards thinking if you ask me. The last, anti specialization, argues against the division of labor.
You may rightfully ask, “Sounds great, my kids would get a great education, taxes wouldn’t go up as much and they wouldn’t be indoctrinated… but how am I supposed to get this done? I am a little guy. They won’t listen to me. Especially since the NEA gets to use my tax money to lobby congress.” All it takes is, talking to your neighbors, writing a letter to your county representative, senator and governor. Then encourage others to do so as well. Your letter all by itself will do little to change the corrupted minds, of people addicted to avarice, but a few will give them pause, a stream will make them shudder and a river will drown their resolve for corrupt NEA money. Even democrats can be swayed, if they get enough letters demanding state education vouchers. Add your letters… I sent mine the other day.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
