Education is essentially religious. That is, what your overarching view of life is, whether theistic or atheistic, will influence your perspective on education.
For that reason, from the very beginning that schools should be publicly funded (1830s) until now, education has been the focus of controversy. The February issue of the Mesa Independent featured two articles that prove this point.
One involves the treatment of children of illegal immigrants and the other a battle of words surrounding trans-ideology. And it should not pass anyone’s attention that the current administration hopes to put an end to the 70-year-old Department of Education.
Again, education is essentially religious, and as such, it will always remain a controversial topic involving differing views about reality, the Constitution, state sovereignty, self-determination, parental rights and money.
Few parents begin with their world view and build step-by-step a systematic approach to how their children should be educated. Instead, they just accept that the federal and state governments must control it and every taxpayer must underwrite it. This essentially passes responsibility and control on to others.
When parents begin to take their child’s education seriously, some may find a way to work with the system, but others will immediately clash with the education bureaucracy. Those bureaucrats chant, “Put children first,” but they mean, “We want more money.”
It is fair to ask just where the responsibility for education really lies. It is fair to ask to what extent the federal government should be involved in our local schools. It is fair to ask why a minority viewpoint is allowed to control the curriculum. It is fair to ask why taxpayer money is used to pay for the education of non-citizens. It is fair to ask if taxpayers are getting good educational value for their money.
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