James Ostrowski reports:
The Buffalo Public School system has been in the press lately. Sadly, little of what has been said has illuminated the most salient truths about that system. First, the ultimate fate of government school students can be predicted by who their parents are, their parents’ educational attainment and income and their home environment such as how many books are in the home.
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Conservatives, like 90 percent of Americans, have been captured by the progressive ideology that has ruled the country for the last 100 years. That being the case, they are reluctant to draw the obvious conclusions: government schools are bad for your kids; they can’t be fixed; they can’t be reformed; and the only solution is to your pull your kids out now. Efforts to save the system or methods that preserve a large measure of state control over education such as vouchers are not the answer. These proposals have also failed on a political level because of the domination of Albany by educational special interest groups.
Reformers have been trying to fix what ails the government schools for at least fifty years. They have failed. It is time for parents to abandon these daytime juvenile detention and propaganda centers. There are plenty of alternatives including Catholic schools, private schools, homeschooling and the latest trend, co-op schools, a hybrid between private schools and home schooling where the school is run by the parents who share teaching responsibilities. The digital age is making these alternatives more viable for people of modest means.
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