Anti-thesis to Newt's Education Bill
Early American public education was respectful toward Christian principles. Families provided for themselves and joined together to help children that were allowed the time to get public schooling. Society of that time made an attempt to increase the learning of its people. It would have been cruel and barbarous not to do so.
Nevertheless, parents provided for the children's needs first, and other helpful education as they could afford it. It is customarily not the responsibility for the public to provide for the individual; it is the responsibility of the public to aid the individual.
However, today's American public education system has wandered afar and evolved contrarily to the concept of individual provision. It has become a huge political propaganda machine, and a source of easy income for the liberal economic middle class. Democratic tyranny and anti-Christian policies have swept the country through treachery. The system has adversely become a way to provide for the financial wealth of irreligious teachers rather than the educational prosperity of students.
Newt's idea, '" ... in which every citizen of every age has full access to the best system of education and learning in the world, ... "'1 may be better than many of the Democratic suggested alleviations or solutions to the public education and tax money problem, but if it does not "empower" the home and the student, then it will turn out to be another modification scheme of the compromise of our youth to enrich the immoral if not savage, ungodly, degree labeled teachers who will financially profit from it. Big government and reward to its self gratifying promoters will have advanced their agenda under another guise.
Newt's local, but still big government or uniformity perspective to '"empower parents, teachers and schools ...,"'2 and to '"give schools and teachers the resources ... "'2 defies the virtue of self provision, sensible and moderate family economics, individual freedom and pursuit of happiness.
Breakfast programs are not a part of education. No school system should be rewarded federal money for misconstruing a welfare problem. Any parent who does not provide a breakfast for his or her child should be reported for abuse and appropriate action taken.
Today's schools have promoted immorality, but many of the results of sexually immoral relationships later show up as broken homes and negligent parents that do not provide for their children. If the present day public school system wants to destroy its students through lack of moral discipline, and have its own lewd and self-interested way of teaching, every tax payer should not be held responsible to pay for its vice.
Education must be based on an individual level, not a local level, and on encouraged moral self provision and merit, not whimsical socialistic hand-out. Furthermore, it should not be made an employment opportunity for a particular profession at the expense of extorting the income tax payer and family.
In order for children to simply have the best education possible, they must be taught Christian principles from their youth. This can be done at home, and with enough financial support, in a private Christian school. Therefore, from a political viewpoint, even though many parents are not interested in Christian education for their children nor the good welfare of the public, the public school system must be based on an individual equal voucher program.
That is, each child could be allotted so much sparingly and in equal amounts according to his or her district, whether to use it at a public school, private school or for home schooling. This way, individual and family self-progressive work and merit would be encouraged. Also, the hard working and those who show proper example of earning their own way would not have to unrightfully suffer at the hands of the indifferent, radically greedy and uncaring.
In order for America to remain America, it must turn back toward early American principles. It must be a refining pot, not a melting pot.
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