Politicians set the rules for their schools, establish the bureaucracies, dole out education welfare, and pay the teachers with tax funds. On August 22, the Rocky Mountain News published a short piece from the Associated Press. The same number favored criminal background checks. And 96 percent supported registering the weapons, said Dennis Gilbert, a sociology professor at Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., who designed the survey. This is a generalization, not a universal, of course.
Some schools do better than others, and some teachers focus on real learning.
Some students escape into Advanced Placement courses or the International Baccalaureate program, while others learn on their own or from their parents. However, problems in government schools are severe enough that I will never send my children to them, and I will continue to advocate market education. I was happy to read two columns published in the News today. Clearly, the Supreme Court has been given far too much discretion in controlling the fate of initiatives. The justices can sit on the ones they don't like for as long as they want before rejecting the title, and then the circulators won't have the time, money or energy to start collecting signatures anew.