Breaking the Public School Monopoly on Education Overdue
27th July 2025
One, an executive order by President Trump, issued shortly after he assumed office, is to dismantle the Department of Education. Outright closing of the department is only possible by an act of Congress. However, the president is moving to accomplish the same objective administratively by closing down offices and major staff elimination. The U.S. Supreme Court recently upheld the president’s authority to do this.
The second front is advancement of parental choice in education. Give parents the power and authority to educate their children as they choose and send their children to a school that reflects their values.
One need not look further than the so-called Nation’s Report Card, the biannual test results administered by the National Assessment of Educational Progress, to see the problem.
Public education was once a great deal, especially for the poor and immigrants (who tended to be poor). Back in the Good Old Days when communities actually had standards and teachers reflected those standards in their teaching and discipline, everybody was happy with it except the Crust, who would much rather their children not mix with the offspring of Dirt People.
Since the Marxist Long March Through the Institutions, however, public schools have devoted their time to attempting to destroy community standards of which the union-infused alphabet-soup-loving proglodyte teachers disapprove, trying (and often succeeding) to send little Woke clones of themselves out into the world to wreak havoc.
As a result, more and more parents have been voting with their feet, searching out alternatives and trying to wrest control of the educational institutions using their tax money to persuade their children to hate their parents.