June 8, 2003
		More nonsense from the San Jose Mercury News on "publik" schooling.  They can't figure out that our horrid school system didn't get that way from a lack of  funds.  To liberals, all good flows from separating people from their money and sending it down the black hole called public education.  Somehow, someday that next million spent will create geniuses.  Until these people are removed from positions of power, we are stuck subsidizing a system that makes the Postal Service look competent by comparison. My reply:
			Despite the glaring failure of our government schools to reform themselves, the Mercury News editorial board remains undeterred.  That education absorbs nearly half of the state budget has done nothing to stem the tide of functionally illiterate graduates emerging from its classrooms.  Your solution: give the inept schools even more funding!  Who is to pay?  Those greedy corporations, of course.  Should do wonders for job creation in the state! Here's an alternative: abolish all public education.  Immediately.  Tell the teachers' unions that their members will be subject to the real world once again.  No more will they get a free pass for incompetence and apathy.  Instead of rewarding failure with larger budgets, it would result in pink slips.  No longer would useless administrators collect six figure salaries.  Budgets would be based anticipated revenue, and revenue would depend on satisfying its customers, students and their parents.  Gone would be the silly education fads and destructive pop psychology, replaced by challenging curricula and a renewed concentration on educational excellence. Meanwhile, I wonder how pathetic the government schools have to get before the unrepentant Marxists at the San Jose Mercury News realize that socialized education doesn't work any better than collectivizing any other aspect of society.