Broken Educational System

Our education system ignores what we know about when and how children learn to read, write and do math.

Our history suggests that students who took responsibility for their own education did the best. If they could get their parents to teach them to read, write and do math, these students were homeschooled. Some of these students then hired tutors to learn specific subjects. Some worked as apprentices to learn a trade. There was no TV, so everybody read books. This was before labor unions, so children were allowed to work at any age, so if they owned a family farm or family business, they worked there.

Our current system is overpriced and underperforming.  School buildings are too expensive and so are busses. Public School central offices are bloated bureaucracies. Classroom learning is too labor-intensive. Classroom material is riddled with liberal propaganda. Classroom material should be restricted to reading, writing and math.

States should stop micromanaging the County School Systems. Students should be held responsible for their own education, not the State.  Corporations need to remove all liberal propaganda from their own policies and let voters decide what laws will be passed. 

As an employer in Atlanta, I was only concerned that whoever I hired was competent and was the “best fit” for the opening. So I used standardized tests for office employees and customized tests for all others. I didn’t care about Atlanta graduation rates at all. I was only concerned about having a large enough labor pool for competent engineers and technicians. I already had a great production labor pool. My only reference to law was that the company would comply with current federal, State and local laws.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader