Dear Friends,
It seems to me, with many teachers refusing to attend school, or even give classes online, due to the danger of Covid 19, perhaps it is time to debate a voucher system? Have you even heard of a voucher system? The idea has been around since the 1980s, when Milton Friedman proposed it, as a solution to the diminishing returns on education spending. Even back then, the US government monopoly education system was not teaching kids to succeed… but never to try. The goal was good worker bees, not entrepreneurs, inventors or leaders… but followers. A real education system would teach children to succeed, to think, imagine and fight. A voucher system would do just that, educate our kids instead of dumb them down to be good little robots. Which serves the administrative state… not them.
We see the results of dumbing down our kids to be good little robots… who are wound up, aimed, and destroy whatever they are pointed at. Kids who otherwise would be starting a business, family or career, are instead burning down Best Buys and being manipulated into lowering their own life outcomes. The rise of ANTIFA which promotes exactly the policies they claim to be against. This is only possible if the members are too ignorant to know history, too obtuse to understand the logical outcome of their actions, and utterly captured by an ideology, keeping them ignorant, obtuse and pliable. Far from elevating our children, the government monopoly school system, set up like a factory, is designed to turn out automatons, not human beings.
Education has been used, since the Progressive era, to create subjects instead of citizens. When the government granted itself a monopoly on education, by forcing all poor and middle class children into public schools, they built those schools along the lines of a factory. Factories turn out uniform products, not individually differentiated human beings. As a result, our children and we ourselves, have been poorly served by the government monopoly school system. Then again, it was never designed to serve us, it was designed to serve the progressive factions need for automatons, to evolve us to utopia. If the socialist revolution cannot evolve individualist people to socialist man… then the progressives would do it by the education system. In this they have exceeded their expectations tenfold.
The main argument against a voucher system is it would result in the total loss of the public school system. The NEA, Teacher’s Union, falls back on this argument. Which is premised on the idea that children serve the schools… not the schools serve our children. That the existence of the schools is far more important than the education of kids. If you think of it, and it will be difficult with only a public education, that is flipping the roles upside down. The schools are supposed to serve the children not the other way around. Only in the mind of a psychopath is the education system superior to the children it is supposed to serve. Which in fact is the best argument you could make for a voucher system. To put the roles back in their proper place. The schools serving the children, not children serving the schools.
We have to ask ourselves what will be the role of the education system going forward? Will it continue to be an indoctrination system to keep our kids down, so others can rise, and a jobs program for teachers, which reverses the role of an education system where it serves the students to one where the students are served to the education system. Like food. We and our children would lose nothing by adopting a voucher system, but indeed we would gain a lot. Private schools would pop up across the nation. Each vying for students on their merits, cost and life outcomes. People being people, each striving for the best for ourselves and our children, the natural evolution of such a system would be to graduate philosopher kings, instead of automatons… Which would you prefer for your child?
Sincerely,
John Pepin
