American education is a mess. A disaster. Yes, I’m quoting myself in a VIP piece from a few days ago. That was the start of what I expect will be a long series on how American education can be reformed or rather replaced — I don’t think the Education Establishment can really be easily reformed, but it can be out-competed.
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The charter school, homeschooling, and universal school choice movement is part of that. It gives parents options to escape the clutches of academic education departments, teachers’ unions, and teachers’ union-dominated school boards.
God made an idiot for practice. Then He made a school board.
— Apocryphally attributed to Mark Twain
The problem is that the Education Establishment has gotten its grubby mittens on a lot
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