Education - the Great Civil Rights Issue of Our
Time
Mr. President, it has been reported that you will "... ask for a $2 billion increase for federal education programs, saying every child should have a fair chance for success. ... in the spirit of the slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." And, that you declared education to be "the great civil rights issue of our time."
Mr. President, I challenge you to face the civil rights issue, regarding education, head-on. And, let us hope that this will lead us to be "free at last" from the chains of a government schooling system based upon compulsion, which has devastated families by usurping the role of parents.
Let me be clear about this:
Our government schooling system is not about education. It is about indoctrination and control. It is about the de facto institutionalization of 90% of our school age children. It is about government subsidized childcare. It is about the separation of child and parent. It is about Hillary’s village. It is about the unbridled power of the NEA and their affiliated unions.
It is a system which, by monopolizing education dollars, has used the People’s government to extract taxes from families and individuals who might otherwise have chosen to support alternative education. It is a system in which parents have been brainwashed into thinking that the education of their children is beyond their comprehension, and must be left up to elitist educrats under government sponsorship. It is a system which has unfairly suppressed the normal evolution of quality education alternatives.
It is anti-family and anti-life. And, to use a word you have popularized, in my opinion it is "evil".Why has education, a natural event in the life of individuals, become such an expensive, ineffective boondoggle, delegated to these government operatives? Why are some in government "hell bent" on separating children from their parents? Why are these "evil doers" allowed to attack the institution of "family"?
Creating tax burdens to support the government schooling monopoly, whether by bonded indebtedness, parcel taxes, utility taxes, etc., forces parents to work extra hours to balance their budget. Parents lose time with their children and educrat/indoctrinators gain more control. And, childless taxpayers lose discretionary use of their education dollars.
We have hidden taxes, collected on our phone bills, which provide $billions in subsidies for internet wiring to facilitate computer use in government schools. Most homes are already wired. Computers in the home, a better idea, would allow parents and children to learn together. We should look for policies which would facilitate a greater occupancy rate for family homes, by family members. Empty homes attract burglars.
Government schools have become day care centers and virtual prisons in the eyes of many taxpayers, parents and students. Government schools serve as distribution centers for drug dealers who thrive on the "big money" in the black market created by the disastrous "war on drugs". Meanwhile, government schools have introduced the joys of Ritalin to parents and their children. Our jails and prisons are full of others who have experimented with drugs. It is a sorry state of affairs.
Parents of school age children, who are effectively forced to turn their children over to the indoctrinators, deserve a choice. Unfortunately, many have grown fond of free babysitting, an entitlement bestowed upon them by a benevolent government. Childless taxpayers, forced to support the government schooling monopoly, deserve a choice in where the would spend their education dollars.
There is something about an arbitrary use of force which seems inappropriate in a free society. This is especially true in the halls of education. It is time to Let Freedom Ring, so that we might all say "Thank God, free at last", from the chains of an ill-founded compulsory education system!
Our Libertarian Party Members pledge not to initiate force. Is it unreasonable to ask that our government do likewise?
Mr. President, I ask you to lead the way.
Jack Hickey, is a retired Senior Research
Scientist and Inventor and 36 year resident of San Mateo County
He is currently the Chair of the Libertarian Party of San Mateo County
He can be reached at 650-368-5722 or e-mail at jackhick@cwnet.com