Another Powerless Just Cause
The failure of South Carolina’s government (public) education system has been well documented over the past three decades. The major deficiencies are as follows:
1. Low academic standards
2. High failure rate on student evaluations
3. High emphasis on accommodation of perverted social, political, and personal issues.
4. Academic equivalency used to raise percentage of graduates.
5. Waste of time and money. Spending $10,000 or more per student per year to accomplish failing results is a visible indicator of corruption and incompetence. The student’s time is wasted going to school to learn little except how to use condoms, how to be a sodomite, and how to be a marxist socialist.
Responding to the inadequacies and indecencies imposed upon our youth by the government education system, many have joined the call for school vouchers or tax credits. Their plan is basically to introduce a free market system into the educational world. Vouchers or tax credits would accomplish several feats:
1. Parents with students not enrolled in government school would no longer be required to finance it. In reality, those that choose private education are required to pay twice for their student’s education. If no services are being received from the government schools, no payment should be required. Yes, that does also go for all people who have no children attending government schools (old people, people with grown children, people with no children, businesses, etc.). Why not allow all parents to be responsible for the education of their own children?
2. Allow parents to decide what school their children will attend.
3. Increase the availability of private education. I’m convinced that economic reasons account for the presence of the majority of students enrolled in government education. Vouchers / tax credits for tuition would allow more people to choose private schools. The increased demand would precipitate the opening of more private schools, thus increasing the choice, the competition, and the quality of education available in the state.
4. Force government education to conform to higher standards or close. The Democrats (especially) have repeatedly charged that those who are in favor of school choice are in favor of closing government education. This by itself is an implicit admission that the politicians themselves are aware that the system will collapse if more people have more choice.
5. Improve the education and moral standards of the entire state over time.
In light of the compelling reasons to offer school choice, The State reports that the issue of vouchers / school choice is not likely to influence this year’s election. The newspaper points to the primary results to illustrate the truth that the proponents of school choice are powerless to effect change in South Carolina.
As is the case in most just causes in the USA, those who support reforms in education lack effective leadership, and therfore lack action. While the majority seems to clearly support school choice, very few are willing to mobilize, putting their support into action. It’s a shame that the state of our politicians is so morally vacant, but nonetheless the necessary reforms will never become reality until these corrupt men and women feel the heat from the voters.
