Whatever You Believe About Public Education, It's Quite Clear It Has Failed

SEE HERE This is revealing. 70% of parents who took advantage of Indiana's voucher program pulled their kids out of the public school. You can complain about the fact that most ended up in Catholic schools, but after all they have to end up somewhere and the Catholic schools are likely the largest single alternative system. I'd guess that even the Catholic schools would not do too well if one really free marketed education because they've been corrupted too by the modernism that has saturated our schools. The quality of education in the United States is generally rather abysmal. That's frankly a disgrace for the wealthiest and freest nation on the planet. Voucher systems or other free market ideas in education are clearly one direction to go. I'm sold on the idea. Most of my extended family is doing home schooling and love the results. We may be ensuring that there are students who will have personal discipline and who truly know how to learn and stand on their own two feet. Someone has to education the leaders of the future and I think the public education system isn't doing a very good job of it.