Parents Who Send Their Children To Public School Are Losers

I have been thinking a bit lately on the topic of school choice and why I think our education system needs to be more competitive. I also don't believe ADD or ADHD is a real disorder, and if it is, then it's way overprescribed.

There are tons of boring and lousy fifth-grade teachers who refer parents to a psychiatrist that then prescribes them what is basically cocaine in a pill and a stimulant. If you think they are already hyper, why give them more of a stimulant then! Parents are giving their 10-year-old children cocaine to cure a made-up disorder, which can cause sudden death, stroke, heart issues, and high blood pressure. Some even report brain damage and slower metabolism as a result of some of these pills. Plus all the preprocessed junk food people eat doesn't help either much. Healthy eating and exercise can go a long way, a healthy body is a healthy mind.

Also, another incentive for schools to try to drug up as many of their students as they can is that the student is then labeled disabled and the school gets extra money from the state. I just think it's very sad and unethical to be drugging children because of lousy teachers, using one size fits all learning.

Look at a computer from the 1960s and today. Look at a phone from then and today. Same for cars too.

Noticed how different things are? Then look at a school from then and today. The only difference is it's just bigger. No innovation in the education space.

I had a science teacher who got on me for taking my iPod out right when the bell rang, she told me to wait until I got outside of her classroom... Everyone just was sitting around waiting, not like she was doing a lesson. The class was over at that point, we were just waiting for the bell. I'd understand how it'd be distracting if it was the middle of class. I don't get why so many are so anti-technology, and still prefer to stick to their chalk and blackboard.

It seems like teachers shy away from technology, probably because the vast unlimited of amounts of information your iPod Touch can look up will soon replace them. There are free lectures from major colleges on YouTube and iTunes U, from Sanford to Yale. Then there are pretty good K-12 grade charter schools coming online. Now these online charter teachers are much more tech savvy and embrace technology, they'll even spend one on one time helping you with you get stuck. Public school teachers treat everyone more like a herd instead of individuals.

It also seems more of the city type of teachers that are scared of technology. They feel threatened and imitated by these devices. They see powerful and online education sources as a threat to their job security. There are even schools now that embrace technology but those are mainly charter schools. Oh, and the public teacher unions are against charter schools. If teachers really cared about students, then why are they so threatened then by alternative choices? Not every student has the same learning style. Some are more visual and audio while others prefer to be a bookworm.

The most I ever seen teachers using technology was to play a movie while they sat playing farmville on Facebook or looking at magic tricks. Movies was cool, but they did the same while we read books too. Getting paid by the government to play with virtual farm animals, a shame. While Facebook and YouTube was blocked for students, the teachers computers bypassed the blocks.

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I think the way we can start to solve this is to start labeling parents that send their children to public schools as losers and lazy parents. Now you might think that's a bit extreme, but the reason why is it's the default choice. You buy a house somewhere and wherever that city is, it has its own schools. Most parents just go send their kids there, and be done with it!!! They don't even have to give it any thought! Not even looking at other schools I think is being a failure to your children, however, to give them the benefit of the doubt I don't think all parents even know about charter schools.

Being that It's the default choice the parents were too lazy to look into better options such as a charter school or a private school. Charter schools are still taxpayer funded, so there's not an excuse to not look at them. The money the local city schools would have got for attending would go to the charter school instead. Probably why most parents don't even have them in their head because the local teachers union for the public city schools doesn't want you to know about them. They want as little to zero choices as possible for your children's education. They don't care about your children, they care about doing the bare minimum and padding their pocketbooks. So they can pay for another summer vacation in New York or Europe.

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So either you are a lazy parent, or your child doesn't try hard enough to get into a charter school or even stay in one. You don't have to be a rich parent to get your kids into a better school. You don't have to think the only option is public or private school. Charter schools are a middle ground between both, a bit of the best of both worlds. You don't have to be rich like private schools, but you get a choice, unlike public schools.

For example in a charter or private school, you can be kicked out due to poor grades. Public schools have to accept everyone. If you don't care about your grades, and disrupts class there's not much a public school can do.

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I fully support the idea of education vouchers. I know we have charter schools, but I think we should go a step forward and not have a default school chosen for children. No more lazy parents just going with the default instead of investigating the best option for their children. They will have to look at the list of public, charter and private schools in their area and make a choice. They'll pick whatever school they feel is best, and in the end, the best school wins.

Let the best school win. Fire the poor performing teachers. Get rid of teacher unions! They complain they don't get paid enough yet they get summer off! For the students who don't behave or even give a serious attempt, kick them out and send them back to the city-run public school until they turn 18.

Then for all the rejected kids and teachers let them basically have a glorified daycare - that's the only role a public school should have, a public daycare for the morons.

Then other issues are schools focus more on memorizing for tests over logic and reasoning. Then the fact that college is usually drilled into their head as the only option, to put them in debt for life. My mom told my sister if she can't pay off college, just declare bankruptcy!!! Well, guess what, you can't!!!

However, college is needed for somethings. I wouldn't want a surgeon with no formal training but making it more affordable would be helpful. As the government offers larger grants and loans amounts, schools raise their rates. It's a never-ending cycle. If the government said everyone had to have a television, a $499 flat screen would end up costing $34,930. There are older people who went to college saying they could have paid for an entire year just working at McDonald's across the street from campus!

Then uniforms I don't really agree with either, personal expression and individualization are key - while school focuses more on brainwashing and making everyone the same like some commodity that can be bought and sold. Also, you ever noticed how school buses and prison buses are the same, just one's yellow and the other is white? While the public transit buses are totally different designs.

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Overall I just think it's a hugely corrupt system if you look at the larger picture, and more choices would be one step towards improving. Maybe some school does worse and others do 100 to 200% or even 5,000% better. Then we can learn what is working and attempt to replicate it improving education for everyone.

I think the voucher system should be a 1800 number for parents without a computer, and also a website like https://schools.gov/ - you enter your location and see a list of options, reviews by real parents, report cards, etc. Photos and videos promoting the school. parents can then use the information gathered and pick. If a parent goes to enroll their student in the local city school, the city school would be mandated by federal law to hand them a flyer about school choice with the website and phone number. I know the city teacher unions will be mad as hell for this idea, but if it's better for the students that's the only thing that should matter.

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What do you guys think about our current day education system?

Image Credits:

• 1960 computer
• 1960 phone image credit
• 1960 car
• 1969 classroom

All other images are stock photos I paid to license.