Education and Politics – Formula for Corruption and Class Warfare

There is nothing wrong with the concept that every child should have an equal chance – it is the American way.  I was underprivileged as an orphan; I lived in foster homes and group homes, went through the system, survived, excelled, became an emancipated minor at 17.  I survived in spite of the system, and not because of it.  So: I say these things first hand:  Whenever there is a budget that big, an unstoppable mandate for funding, and politics: these all add up to a formula for corruption. (thanks to http://americasnextimpactsite.com/2011/08/04/higheredreform/ for this image.)

Accountability is absent, as indicated by the widespread fraud on the tests that have finally been mandated to measure teachers and schools.

The goal all along: to level the playing field of underprivileged children, a noble plan, but lets evaluate the results:

• Rampant corruption
• Over-powerful unions
• Public schools are terrible compared to their private counterparts; we have widened the gap not narrowed it.
• Private schools, with their high price tags, are still the best

Our democratic socialist republic is in trouble: we need to  re-evaluate our results:

• Public education is not efficient
• Public education is not as good
• Public education is more expensive
• Public education is funded by political football; very unhealthy

My groundbreaking idea?  End public education as we know it: put it out for bids; put the schools up for sale top the highest qualified bidder; and put the Government in the governing role.  Your thoughts?  lets be realistic:

• the material is outdated,
•  inundated with political propaganda,
•  not that good, really?!
•  If not for an 18 month scholarship to a private school (the Midland school in Los Olivos, CA – still exists I believe.) where I received a college English education in the 9th grade, I would not have the education that I have acquired:
•  I have managed to become very educated without a formal college education
•  This is more common than you know these days.

The over-educated, under-challenged elite could complain about my lack of attention to convention;  my lack of loyalty to coloring between the lines;  the fact that they did not get a chance to put me on sedatives before I could get this far;  the fact that they cannot control me!  OH DARN!  Your thoughts?

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