This article appeared in the September 1999 issue of the Minnesota Sentinel , a conservative monthly. The stated goal of these actions is to improve public education. This bird won't fly.
Public education is government education.
It is a socialist institution and therefore will always be inefficient, unresponsive and unable to meet the needs of each individual. It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. If you believe in the benefits of a free market economy, you know that it results in better products, at lower prices with more choices for everyone. Conversely we know that government controlled activities are inefficient and bureaucratic, with no choice allowed. The collapse of the communist block exposed the utter failure of centrally controlled economies that could never be fixed by any of the grandiose five year plans devised by government planners.