The education system of the United States of America is in need of reform. For the last few decades, as more money has been put into the public education system, the results or return on investment is not in well equipped graduates, but more people pushing ideology more than the STEM standards, and practical uses of education to benefit the community and the world.
Unions, teachers unions, had formed to protect the rights of teachers, but now has become a bastion of political drama, a money drain for the nation, and a place where politicians sit, versus being the model positions where the further push to improve education and maintain standards that are equitable for teachers and students. A haunt of where failed folks have hidden, lacking any skills, to partake in a machine that is doomed to fail.
As per head costs are calculated, the options should be for privatization versus public – if the public can maintain good numbers for enrollment, then they win, but if the private sector provides a quality education that surpasses the public, the head count amount of money goes to them. Simple. It allows parents to shop and consider what is best for their children.
This privatization allows students to consider trade schools as an end option and immediate transition to the work force. The privatization allows special needs children to have a path where they can function in society. The privatization allows children at risk in high crime communities an opportunity, to step out and not be held within the walls of their communities. The public sector school has failed for 7 decades, and is in desperate need of reform.
In comparison to some of the leaders in the world, in regards to education, some nations have their children at school from 6AM to 10PM in the evening. I am not advocating such a strict regiment, but we do need to do better in regards to education. The tax dollars being fought over between the public and private sector allows healthy competition to take place, and I can see more incentives for the private sector to acquire the best talent, and surpass the problems that are inherently flawed in the politics and teachers unions that cost the education of the students.
Lessons in the Covid 19 pandemic clearly show the loss of education in children pushed by the public school unions, while those that chose the private sector in many situations have not fallen behind.
Once again healthy competition for tax dollars – taking away from public and going to private is the way to go – the days of entitlements of archaic failed systems of politics and pushing agendas will do no benefit for the local communities, or the nation as a whole. Change is needed, and in order to address the global threats from nation states that mock and also mettle in our politics, surely make the education found in the public a mockery to the world. We can do better, we need to do better, and our children deserve better.