How Can They Deny Educational Freedom?

How Can They Deny Educational Freedom? Easy. They know what's better for you than even you do. Well, that and the teachers' unions call the shots. Oh, and they'll still send their kids to good private schools.

While I sympathize with this woman's position and plight in general. I disagree that vouchers are the answer. They would just further encroach on our liberties and give government even greater control of private education. The real answer is to get the government out of the education business altogether.

"When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of school children."
-- Albert Shanker, Former President of the American Federation of Teachers

"The education of all children,
from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care,
shall be in state institutions at state expense."
-- Karl Marx
Father of Communism, Author of the 'Communist Manifesto'
Source: The Communist Manifesto

How Can They Deny Freedom? (Cato-at-liberty): "Maybe those people who constantly spew the mantra against school choice that it would “destroy public education” have never considered what putting some faceless, bureaucratic system above actual human beings really does. Well, there’s a great piece in the Atlanta Journal Constitution today by Lydia Glaize, a parent who’s struggled mightily to keep her children out of atrocious public schools, that directly attacks this sorry, but all-too convenient, excuse for denying parents freedom."

Parents must have choices on their children's education - ajc.com: "Although it is the first week of school, my husband and I refused to send our twins, Aaron and Abigail, to our local Fulton County high school."

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