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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: Virginia LP
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/s/ Paul Mitchell
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p.s. Home schooling is where
all the action is today!
At 08:56 AM 10/12/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Fellow Forumers,
>
> I received this from a young LPer from SC. The youth would like comment
>as you see fit. Please respond via me and I will forward back to the
>youth.
>
>Thanks
>Dana
>
>| Dear State Libertarian Party,
>|
>| My name is James, and I'm a member of the South Carolina Libertarian
>Party.
>| I'm 19 years old and I'm a sophomore at USC. I recently wrote an article
>| about the need for privatization of education. I am sending this to the
>| LP's of all 50 states to get feedback. If you decide to put this on a
>| bulletin board, please do not use my name. I would like to remain
>| anonymous. I did not copy this either. Please e-mail me and tell me what
>| you think. Thank-you for your time.
>|
>| Here's the article :
>|
>|
>| The Catastrophy of the American Education
>System
>| &
>| The Libertarian Solution
>|
>| I think we can all agree that the current public education system in
>| America is in deep trouble. Our nation spends an average of over $5,800
>per
>| student, per year in public schools. When added up, the total government
>| expenditures come to over $280 Billion a year (World Almanac 1997).
>|
>| Would you say that the schools are better off as a result? As someone
>who
>| has talked with teachers and students, and once attended one; I know I
>| wouldn't. In public schools we have a 30% dropout rate, a 20% pregnancy
>| rate, widespread student
>| apathy, rising rates of gang violence and falling test scores. Many
>schools
>| are also overcrowded, filled to nearly 140% of their capacity. Sure,
>there
>| are exceptions, but overall, the situation is grim.
>|
>| It is my belief that the government no longer cares about education. If
>| they did, they would have taken action by now. The government
>bureaucracy
>| is not being held accountable for their actions, such as allowing
>buildings
>| to deteriorate. They are also not being held accountable for the
>| experiments they perform on children, such as OBE. They have no solid
>proof
>| that OBE is a more effective way of teaching, yet they have wasted no
>time
>| in putting it in the system. They have also wasted no time with the
>| enforcement of a program known as "value's clarification". In short,
>| value's clarification is the brainwashing of a child.
>|
>| The Libertarian Party would like to change all of this. Libertarians are
>| frustrated with the current system and believe that privatization is the
>| best answer. The government has messed the schools up enough and it's
>time
>| for the parents and teachers to take back the control that is rightfully
>| theirs. It is
>| the Libertarian belief that parents are tired of the government having a
>| monopoly on the education system, and that teachers are tired of feeling
>| powerless in dealing with problem children.
>|
>| Private schools have an incentive and motive for providing children with
>| the best education to which they are capable. They know that parents
>have
>| other options and can take their business elsewhere. Private education
>is
>| also cheaper. Many private schools operate on a budget that is half that
>of
>| public schools.
>|
>| Think of education as a commodity. When you go to a place of business,
>such
>| as a grocery store, and you are unpleased with the selection or quality,
>| what do you do? In the current free-market system, you go to another
>store,
>| and hope the last one changes its ways to stay in business. If the
>public
>| education system were applied, you would go to another store with a
>| different name, but ran by the same people on the other side of town.
>|
>| This is very frustrating and I believe this is how many parents believe
>| they are being treated. Parents and their children deserve better. They
>| deserve to choose and have the benefits that the free-market can give
>them.
>| I do not see any reason that they should settle for a government
>handout.
>| Education has a tremendous influence on the probability of someone
>| succeeding in the world. Education is the last thing that should be
>treated
>| as a handout.
>|
>| What do you think?
>|
>| Your Fellow LPer, xxxxx|
>
>
>
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