Jim Gerraghty caught
flak this week for proposing that, as long as we're going to let the federal government take over our lives, why don't we have a federal mandate requiring states to give parents school choice? I take to heart his readers' objections that he was indulging in the same fascist tactics that we so deplore in his opponents, but I don't see why we couldn't make federal education dollars contingent on support for vouchers, home-schooling, and other forms of school choice. I'd rather see the federal education dollars dry up, anyway, so if states decided to start refusing them, that wouldn't bother me.
Difficult to say. Depends on tactical and strategic options.
ReplyDeleteEducation is not merely indoctrination due to federal funding or lack of vouchers. There are other considerations and factions at work.