The Anarchist Solution

You cannot reform the education system precisely because it is a system. Once something becomes a system it forgets its original reason for being and becomes an out of control entity bent on feeding, growing and self-perpetuation. It feeds on our taxes and perpetuates itself by adding ever more layers of hierarchy to itself so it can grow and become more powerful.

So what can be done. Abolish compulsory education and see who actually shows up. Give all families a check for their portion of education tax revenues and let them spend it as they will. The only caveat would be that they must account for their use of the money and if they can't, they pay it back with a penalty to the issuing authority.

Abolish the Department of Education and cancel all of its unfunded mandates. Under the 10th Amendment to the Constitution the Department is clearly unconstitutional.There is nothing in the Constitution about education; therefore, it is a matter reserved to the states. Period.

Make everything pertaining to education as local as possible. I'll speak more to this later.

Of course this will never happen. And the reason is simple and does not involve politics or economics. The reason is that these actions would close down the biggest babysitting operation in existence and the sheeples would baa very loudly as would the babysitters themselves.

~ mce

"The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know." ~William R. Inge