Two kinds of inheritence:  your wealth and your progeny

Goal

By facilitating private education contracting, we hope to facilitate the complete separation of school and state. The government education system will eventually die for want of students. This process can be accelerated by political action. Repealing compulsory public school attendance laws will physically free students to seek the right education at the right pace for them. Repealing school bonds and taxes will financially free parents to seek private alternatives to government education.

Would you willingly do business with a company operating under this set of guidelines?:

1. The customer is required by law to purchase the product.
2. There is no competition.
3. There is an unending source of capital.
4. There is no product guarantee.
5. The company is not accountable to its customers.
6. The company cannot be sued for product failure.
7. Fraudulent data will be used to respond to a demand for accountability.
8. Responds to external tests of accountability with a series of lies.
9. There are twice as many administrators as workers.
10. Two-thirds of the revenue is dedicated to administration.
11. Worker training has little or no relevance to job skills.
12. Fifty percent worker attrition every five years.
13. The worker's union is part of the corporate management, and is the only union in the United States that 'owns' its own cabinet department.

What's the name of this company? It's Public schools.

- "Why Our Children Can't Read" by Diane McGuinness, PhD

The Law and Education

You say: "There are persons who lack education," and you turn to the law. But the law is not, in itself, a torch of learning which shines its light abroad. The law extends over a society where some persons have knowledge and others do not; where some citizens need to learn, and others can teach. In this matter of education, the law has only two alternatives: It can permit this transaction of teaching-and-learning to operate freely and without the use of force, or it can force human wills in this matter by taking from some of them enough to pay the teachers who are appointed by government to instruct others, without charge. But in this second case, the law commits legal plunder by violating liberty and property. -- Frederick Bastiat

Libertarian Principles

The initiation of force is wrong. Theft is an initiation of force. Theft is wrong, always, regardless of the esteemed need or number of votes.

The forcible transfer wealth from one person to another is theft, regardless of the form of the force, e.g. intimidation (media coverage of IRS actions), extortion (threats of legal proceedings) or physical force (incarceration and seizure). Taxes for anything other than the protection of each individual's life, liberty and property is theft.

Vouchers

Although vouchers will allegedly give parents the financial freedom to chose among schools, vouchers still rely on compulsory taxes. They steal money from those without children and give it to those with children.

Vouchers will invariably have strings attached. They will be limited to "approved" schools. The same requirements that now hobble public education will be extended to private schools. If a school wants to be eligible for vouchers, it will have to accept all applicants, regardless of race, creed, physical or mental capacity, motivation or interest. They will have to accept unruly and disruptive students, and they will be constrained in their methods of dealing with them. No specialization will be tolerated. The government will dictate the rules, not the parents.

Tax Credits

Though less repugnant that vouchers, tax credits are still based on theft. Those without children will not benefit from the credits unless their credits are devoted to "education charities." To get the benefit, you must force your children to attend school, whether they are ready for it or not.

Privatization

We feel the only viable educational system is one based on the freedom to contract or not to contract with anyone for anything, including education.

Those concerned about the education of the poor can create or support educational charities. Many such charities already exist for the purpose of helping poor parents excape the public education system and get their children into private schools.