Education

one size does not fit all with education

As a country, we are failing the young minds of our Nation at every level.  

Primary Education: I am absolutely pro-choice when it comes to the education of our children. Parents should be able to choose the school and environment best suited for their child. Nowhere is the misguided “one size fits all” mentality more prominently displayed than our approach to education. In today’s world, we need to free parents of the antiquated mindset that your child is relegated to the local public school and equip and empower them to discover the wealth of opportunity that exists in the forms of public, public online, private, charter and home schools. Additionally, we need to bring back vocational classes as early as middle school. Not every child is meant for college. We need to recognize that fact and provide ample opportunity for those children as well.

Secondary Education: Unfortunately, we have allowed our colleges and universities to deteriorate into profit centers instead of institutions of free thought and higher education. If there is one positive aspect of the pandemic, it is that it has brought to the forefront, the malicious practices of many of our top universities. It is unconscionable that these schools are allowed to charge full tuition (and all the accompanying “fees” and “charges”) while students are not allowed on campus and relegated to an online only learning experience, akin to what they would receive at any local or community college. What makes this unfair business practice even more egregious is the fact that these same institutions enjoy endowment and alumni funding in the BILLIONS of dollars. If there was ever a time for a university to place the education of its students above its own financial interests, that time is now! Instead, these State and Federally-funded universities display their true agendas, which is a profit margin born on the backs of the students and their parents. This educational extortion must stop! No company in the United States would be allowed to continue to do business if it operated under such heavy handed practices while benefitting from taxpayer dollars.