Time To Elminate Public Schools?

The damage they do is far greater than we allow ourselves to believe. But the system self-perpetuates because, as is the case with my wife's employment, it's the largest jobs program in the country. Too many people are self interested in perpetuating the status quo.

But every now and again a story comes out that reminds me of the truest American approach to education. Paul Galvin writes about this approach:

There is nothing inherently American about a top-down, one-size-fits-all public school system, a system drawn from the authoritarian Prussian model...Hearthside teaching aka home schools, private tutoring, and small community-based private schools (with the emphasis on small) are representative of the American tradition.

An example of this traditional and commendable approach can be found here in Merrimack, NH. This magnificent young lady has interests, thoughts, and beliefs which would be very hard to sustain at the public school. Pro-Second Amendment? Pro-dead white males? Pro-liberty and Constitution? Pro-life? At best, she'd be considered weird. Notice her home--a Mormon one--consciously celebrates life. Look at the background collage of all the baby pictures. That's the kind of home that will save us.

Libertarians have to stop believing they can love liberty, but consciously embrace the left whenever possible. It's the right that is the natural ally.

**I don't home school. Not yet.