Friday - September 10, 2004
Why I am Against School Vouchers
Sometimes I have supported the school voucher
movement, in the same way that one would tolerate the village drunk expounding
on the evils of drinking. I agree that drinking is bad, and I'm glad the issue
is being addressed, but I don't think the drunkard has the best solution in
mind.Likewise, I despise public
schools and think destroying public education to be the most profound and
important domestic political movement in our country today. Although vouchers
serve to destroy public schools, and weaken the strength of the teacher unions,
in the long run vouchers will be even worse. So I've been trying to support the
enemy of my enemy in the hope that public schools will be sufficiently weakened
without destroying our freedom.But I
was deluding myself. The latest
obscenity from congress has made it all too clear. I should have
paid more attention
to Congressman Dr.
Ron Paul on this issue. Now congress has declared that all school
children will be screened for "mental health" in an obligatory screening. Of
course, we know that this will mean a windfall profit for the drug manufacturers
who will continue their frightening insistence on drugging Americans with
powerful psychotropic drugs like Ritalin.
If the government can force your children to be
screened for "mental health," a fuzzy concept that is interpreted by people in
our very poorly advanced understanding of the subject, then we know for a fact
that they will take advantage of past court rulings that force parents to
medicate their children. And with the amount of money involved no one should be
deluded into thinking that this isn't exactly what was in
mind.
Right now we have the freedom,
provided we can afford to pay for both public schools through taxes and private
schools with the money the government allows us to keep after taxing us, to
educate our children free from government control and incompetence. But if the
voucher system is successful, there will be no private schools that could afford
to forego receiving government subsidies from vouchers and thus the government
will have absolute control over every child in the country, without
exception.
This is truly Orwellian, and
frightens me supremely. Added to this they now seek to be judges of what
children have proper mental "health" or ideologies and will, we can be sure,
forcibly medicate children so that they will conform to government ideals of
behavior.
A man's mind is the only
bulwark against tyranny. If we can't control our own minds, especially on such
a large scale as all school children in the country, then our society, our
culture, our freedom are doomed. The road to serfdom is getting shorter and
shorter.
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