“This is even more infuriating than being ignored because she basically thought to herself, “let’s placate these idiots and go ahead with the plan anyway.” Then she gets up every day and thinks she is doing a great job for the people she serves.:

I agree with this 100%. It is OFFENSIVE – and really indicates the lack of respect for educators, and the education system in general.

Erase the limitations on your child’s education, repeal compulsory education.

Give your child a head start, teach them to develop their heart’s desire at the earliest age possible. Repeal compulsory education.

Return the responsibility for preparing children to become parents to the parents, repeal compulsory education.

Return prosperity to your community, repeal compulsory education.

Return creativity and innovation to your state, repeal compulsory education.

Put thousands of government employees back to work paying taxing and lowering our nation debt, repeal compulsory education.

Bring jobs to the United States, repeal compulsory education.

Poverty is defined as not having the basic capacity to adapt to society. Shrinking towns are not adapting, they are going extinct. Our nation was founded on a common core, ethics, morals, integrity and education. We are failing our children in each category. We are becoming a nation that does not trust its neighbors and other nations are leery of trusting us. Business can not survive without mutual trust.

When enough people prosper the community prospers and attract others. Rural America is not prospering because the school systems are not meeting the local community needs. Individuals must prosper where they live, that takes deep, critical, moral, ethical thinking in conjunction with freedom, faith, persistence and community. For 200 years individual minds solved local needs creating prosperous individuals. That synergy in the 1800s resulted in our nation’s communities out producing the rest of the world.

So is our nation’s education problem finding a single leader wise enough to know the best solution for every community or parents in every community trying to find the best solution for their children?

Across the nation, every state has had compulsory education since 1917. If a measure of our nation’s success is its productivity and productivity results in cash flow than the 1800s were the most successful period in United States history. Twentynine of our top thirty wealthiest people were born and therefore educated in the 1800s. One was born since WWII when the grip of compulsory education begin to squeeze the local community’s control of curriculums to the strangle hold that exists today.

In an age when we need more specialist, it takes more people to make an iPad compared to the pencil it replaces, our education system is intentionally producing fewer specialists. Production line education has developed into $5 billion dollar annual business. Repealing compulsory education at the state level would kill the goose that lays $5 billion dollar eggs and spread the wealth around. Not good for those businesses like Pearson Publishing that control most text books and tests.

Returning the curriculum to the community would return the responsibility and the means for each community to decided its fate, growth or extinction, a choice not available to any community in the nation today.

Our Pilgrims left England in search of freedom of education. We have no where else to go. We must get freedom of education back. First step is repeal, in each state, the compulsory education laws.

We have the teachers, we have the desire. When teacher performance is measured by community performance those states who repeal compulsory education will have a competitive advantage. There will be some Tories, change is difficult. After 40 years of stagnant NAEP scores, even the dullest among us knows we can’t keep doing the same thing and expect different results.

Mighty rivers flow from single drop of rains getting together.

Jim

I used to look to fill my life with the things (tangible and intangible) that say, “You’ve arrived, baby!” Now I realize in my personal and professional journeys, I will never arrive. Nor do I want to.

Thanks for bringing this valuable practice to the forefront.