Our educational systems and institutions have morphed and expanded substantially over the last 200 years.

Becoming official with the creation of the ‘Common School’ and ‘Compulsory Education’ in 1800’s New England, our children have been gradually compelled by law to attend some form of schooling. 

This all culminated in the Department Of Education in 1979, created to “provide national leadership”.

We know what has occurred since. Plummeting education scores.  Staggering proficiency decreases in the 3 R’s. It’s a disaster – a real sh-t show.  And this is our children were talking about!

Think about where we’d be without our national  can-do spirit and free-enterprise system.  And where we could be with a properly educated populace. 

A practical illustration of this disturbing trend is the Catholic school system in the state of New York. These schools are left to themselves, so they operate like private enterprises, not unionized, public school monopolies.

It’s been found that the New York City public schools system has 250 times as many administrators as the New York Catholic school system. 6,000 administrators in the public school system versus 24 in the Catholic school system, even though New York public schools have only four times as many students as the Catholic schools.  This is not only incompetent, it’s downright fraudulent.

As it is with every government created bureuacracy, the public schools have replaced progress and greater efficiency with stagnation and higher costs.

Since 2000, the number of students has grown by about 5 percent and the number of teachers has grown by about 10 percent. Yet, surprisingly, the number of principals and assistant principals has grown by 39 percent and the number of administrative staff members has grown by 95 percent.

According to a Gallup poll, U.S. parents’ concern for their children’s physical safety at school is the highest it’s been in over two decades. Almost half of parents say they fear for their child’s personal safety in the classroom — a 10% jump since 2019 and nearly as high as the notrious events of 1999 and 2001.

Moreover, educators themselves feel less safe than they used to. A survey found that 40% of teachers are more worried about safety than they were five years ago.

The sad news is too many of today’s public school environments consists of regular:

• Physical-Bullying
• Social-Ostracization
• Cyber-Harassment
• Drug-Exposure

Give your child an education rooted in freedom, critical thinking, and real-world preparation.