Start Over

Our public school system is a failure. There have been many attempts to fix the school system, the latest of which was "No Child Left Behind," which, though I normally like President Bush's policies, is a utterly ridiculous measure. "No Child Left Behind" not only didn't fix our old problems, it created new ones. The law causes teachers to focus all of their time on the kids who are stupid and/or lazy, while ignoring those who want to learn. This is what happens when government handles things that ought to be controlled by the free market. The quality of schools is dropping fast. If we had a free market economy in the schooling system, then competition between schools would drive prices down and quality up, instead of now, where the schools have no incentive to improve since they're going to get their obscenely exhorbitant check from the government anyway.
In addition to the quality problems, our schools, in attempting to be "unbiased" and "tolerant," have become so left-wing that our history books are no longer history books, they're stories that have been rewritten so that they say whatever suits the liberals political purposes. Which means that we're raising an entire generation to be anti-christian, anti-life, and anti-gun. If you want to know why America is screwed up so bad, you need look no further than the public school system that "educated" them. And guess what? It's only getting worse.
We need to fix our school system. Not "fix-it" like instituting yet another pathetic reform plan. "Fix-it" as in kill it and start over. Start over with something completely different. Start over with a school system in which the free market reigns, and parents can choose where to send their children, instead of being stuck with a choice between the socialist public schools or home schooling (which isn't a choice for many busy American parents). Starting over is the only way, because the existing system is too far gone. So let's start over, and start over today.