THE GOVERNMENT'S ROLE IN EDUCATION

The federal government's solution to making public education work is to spend millions more in grants to certain schools to demonstrate that government-ran public education can succeed. News flash! Any system can work if enough money is available to prop it up. When the money is taken away, it will go back to failure unless the system is reformed.

Federal government is not the solution; it is the problem. The federal government has no power dedicated to it by the U.S. Constitution to be involved in educating children. This responsibility belongs to the states and to the people. If the federal government wants to help, Congress could pass legislation amending corporate law to forbid national unionization of public employees.

The real solution to public education is as simple as allowing each individual the option to go to a private school at taxpayer expense. The public school system would not survive the open competition with private schools unless it made the necessary changes to compete. Society would benefit from competition because schools could go back to using the Holy Bible as the main text book which was done in schools at the beginning of this nation. The knowledge of God is the beginning of wisdom.