Defunding EDUCATION Thugs....

the important thing is this lack of confidence has
led parents to do something about it. Major cities in the
United States are seeing plummeting attendance, as fed-up parents are
pulling their kids out of the government indoctrination centers and
enrolling them elsewhere. This is, in fact, what will ultimately speak
the loudest. Empty desks lead to fewer tax dollars for the school
district, and this is a very good thing, especially when we’re talking
about a government enterprise that spends anywhere from 9 to 15 thousand
dollars ($30,000 in Washington D.C. schools) a year per student. When parents actually begin to consider what they could be getting for that amount of money in private schools the numbers don’t bode well for the public ones.

An increasing number of parents are even opting for homeschooling. I
would imagine part of the rationale is that the old wives’ tale about
needing a “trained” educator to educate has just about run its course.
Parents now realize how little the “trained” educators are actually
doing for their children, and they figure that they can at least provide
the same amount of “little” in their own home. The same parents who
have taught their children to speak, count, read, and tie their own
shoes before shipping them off “to school” are beginning to understand
that the necessity of the “educated educator” is as mythical as Jack’s
beanstalk.

government schools’ track record is less than
flattering. Year after year, test scores decline, school violence goes
up, and more money is always the answer. So much money has been dumped
into the failing institution that the Department of Education (DOE) now
commands more than $90 billion (the Heritage Foundation estimates it at
$120 billion, so I am being more than generous here) each year to keep
its bloated bureaucracy of inefficiency afloat. If more money is the
answer, when does enough become enough to actually yield better results
than the year before? How long must we beat our heads against the same
wall before realizing that it is completely ineffective?

The thug organization
of indoctrination, also known as the NEA (National Education
Association), is also hemorrhaging members. USA Today reports
that the NEA has lost more than 100,000 members since 2010. It projects
that by 2014 the union group could lose as many as 308,000, which
translates into a lost annual revenue of $65 million. This is the only
language that the NEA and the DOE understand. Lightening the load of
their deep pockets by removing large amounts of extorted cash is the
only way they will begin to take notice of their utter failure and lack
of concern (besides using their own failures to lobby for more money, of
course).

So much for it being “all about the children.” Wise parents by the
droves are no longer listening to the propaganda and the scare tactics
and are taking action for the sake of their own kids. What are you waiting for?