Posted by
PublicSchoolConservative on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 12:41:09 PM
I am a public school employee. I am one of the few public school employees that I know of that believes in choice. I wholeheartedly believe that given a choice, people will usually choose what is right for them. I believe that God made people free moral agents and not robots. I am fortunate to work in a school system where I have liberty to teach "alternative" points of view. When I teach about evolution, I also include intelligent design in my unit. I teach it from the scientific point of view, not the religious point of view. With that being said, I understand why a lot of people in this country want to homeschool their children. A lot of school teachers bash conservative view points. I have been victim of this in my career. I have had one parent tell me that I was part of the wrong party to be a public school employee. I like to think like an economist. When there are companies competing for the same business, usually the competing companies will be more efficient and desing products that are more in line of public desires. I think that if schools had to compete for the best and brightest, then our teachers and curriculum would be forced to improve. If we had to compete, the incentives to be the best would be there. These incentives are not currently in the school system. I tell my students that competition usually brings out the best in people! Governments need to learn this lesson and allow parents to make the choice of public school or homeschool.