Money does not fix schools

As a parent in Kansas City, I am always reading about education, its downfalls and ways we can create change. We are facing hard times these days with our child's education. We cannot afford to send to private school, but our public schools are not giving our child a good education. I came across this blog and thought it was great! Click here to read the entire piece. Here are a few sections I found strongly compelling:

For decades critics of the public schools have been saying, "You can't solve educational problems by throwing money at them." The education establishment and its supporters have replied, "No one's ever tried." In Kansas City they did try - and failed.

The Kansas City Missouri school district is a disaster by any measure. Like all government school systems in this nation, it's a monopoly funded by taxpayer dollars with little or no recourse for parents or students if the system fails - unless the family can afford the additional funds for private schooling. Out of the question for the majority of families.

Fix the government schools, but, with the over bearing misdirection of a power hungry groups like the local idiots in this school board, or the national socialists like the NEA, more interested in maintaining its flow of cash from the tax payers than what is most beneficial to the students, that is nearly impossible. As a result, the students suffer, the parents are fleeced and frustrated, and the community at large deteriorates from the petty pond scum antics of tin horn bureaucrats.

The only way to kill this beast is to starve it! Cut off the money! Funnel it back to the people with the highest interest in the outcome of successful schools - parents and their children! Vote school vouchers / vote school choice! - Public funding of private education because, as we've seen, government schools are a monopoly money pit that can destroy communities and children's futures, and offer little or no recourse when the system fails so miserably as it has in Kansas City, Missouri. Put the power (read: money) directly into the hands of the consumer (read: parents) and let the consumer select the best educational choices for their children.

While it may be written with some harsh words I would not use, I agree with the overall message. We need to allow the parents some choices. If we let the people of Missouri decide, it will help all the schools by showing them which ones will not be attended, then those schools will have to improve to keep the doors open.