Private schools have to be accountable to their students parents, because if the parents are unhappy they take their kids and their tuition dollars. The satisfaction of the parents drive the instructional programs.

With public education, the schools get paid whether parents happy or not. The only institution that can threaten the public schools funding is the state if the school underperforms on state assessments. So the public schools are accountable to the state, not the parents.

Nationalizing that will only make the disconnect more pronounced. Schools will be accountable to the national standards and assessment boards as opposed to the state standards and assessment boards. Parents, and their satisfaction with how their children are educated, will be even more irrelevant than they are now.

To fix the problems we need to give control back to the parents. Let us take our education dollars and find a school that we support and believe gives our kids the education they deserve.

You sound angry. Why does it disturb you that I advocate Constitutional government? What would you have replace the Constitution? Do you dream of pure unfettered, majority rule? Do you understand that that would lead to the most tyranical sort of government?

When a majority of the People rule without restraint, that People rules as a mob rules. Someone always becomes the instrument of the People’s will, and that someone always promises to restore order. And eventually that someone seeks to bend the People to his will.

Thus, it is because the People accept the constraints imposed by the Constitution — and still to some extent insist that their leaders do the same — that we still have civil rights. Will we still have those same civil rights next year? Five years from now? I don’t know.