The battle for school privatization is proving to be one of the toughest in the cultural civil war. Its objective is wresting money and power from entrenched bureaucrats and one of the most powerful unions in the nation, entities that will not give up without a vicious fight. Moreover, they have the judicial tyrants overwhelmingly on their side, trial lawyers as their foot soldiers and the Democrat party in thrall. And yet in her recent column, Mona Charen sees reasons for hope, and offers some very interesting data:
The Cato Institute looked at prices of private schools in a number of cities around the country and compared their tuitions with what the government spends on education. In the District of Columbia, for example, the government spends $11,009 per pupil. Forty-five of the District's private schools charged less than that per year, and 39 charged $5,000 or less.
In Houston, annual per-pupil spending by the city and state is $7,098. But 119 of the area's 144 private schools charge less, and 90 percent charged $5,000 or less. In Denver, the government spends $9,919 to educate each pupil per year. Only six of the city's 91 private elementary schools charge that much. The median private tuition is $3,528.
Would that the problem were only obscene amounts of cash being expended in a failed attempt to educate.
In public school, your child will learn a few lessons. They include that sex is no more than a pleasurable bodily function; that nature and the environment should be worshiped; that all cultures are equal, except Western civilization, which is the evil product of a succession of slave-owning white males; that animals should have human rights but fetuses should not; and that religion is benighted mythology, except for Islam, which in California schools your kid will be forced to practice . . . the list is endless.
Use our Take Action page to express to your representatives your support for school vouchers and the ultimate privatization of public education from pre-school to university. (And if you are considering home schooling your child, read this and contemplate the possibilities.)
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