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-A- by TAMMY DRENNAN A Practical Plan Help parents remove their children from "public schools" by MARSHALL FRITZ Excerpt: Momentary political victory in a period of crisis would be useless without victory in the hearts and minds of people. The Separation Alliance focuses on the necessary first step in accomplishing our mission-the building of a broad-based constituency for "Separation" ...
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Blacktop Pedagogy: Lessons Learned on the Road by MARSHALL FRITZ
Bold New Vision of the Same Old Thing: Bush's Education Program Repeats Past Failures by MARSHALL FRITZ Excerpt: Every year, Lucy would convince Charlie Brown that this time she’d let him kick the football. After a bit of cajoling, good ol’ Charlie Brown would try again and “AAARGH!!”, our hero lies flat on his back... So it is with “education reform.” The politician says once again, “Trust me. This time we’re going to get it right!” Build a Constituency for "Separation" Our Mission 1997 Excerpt: Our goal is to end government involvement in elementary and secondary education in the United States. Our job is to build a constituency for Separation. That constituency will act-through many independent organizations-to see Separation accomplished. Return to Top -C-
by JAMES BOYES Excerpt: There is not one subject area left untouched by the Spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ. Everything is seen through His mind and Spirit -- from the Biblical worldview, if you will. Can You Say "en-ti'-tle-ment?" Cement Canoe, The by MARSHALL FRITZ Originally published in The Education Liberator, Vol. 1, No. 1, September 1995 by MARY K. NOVELLO, Ed.D. Excerpt: The impact of compulsory education laws and their enforcement is most profound on religious schools and home schoolers, although it should be noted that all the data indicate that children who attend private schools, religious schools, or are home schooled perform better on nationally standardized tests than their public school counterparts.
Cyberschools - the rest of the story by ROBIN BERNHOFT, MD Excerpt: The Catholic Church teaches that parents bear primary responsibility for their children's education. This makes the government schools' "Parents as Partners" mantra a demotion in parental status. We parents are not "partners" with teachers; they work under our authority...
Return to Top -D- Dana Gioia Means Well, But... by TAMMY DRENNAN Excerpt: People in all parts of pre-government-schooling America enjoyed literature, art of various forms, music and other cultural enrichments as part of their uncompelled social lives. And the trend was growing. So what has happened? Double Dipping: Special Education & Medicaid by LINDA SCHROCK TAYLOR Excerpt: The aspect of Medicaid with which I deal is this: public schools are encouraged to believe that special education teachers provide medical services, and so public schools are filing claims with Medicaid. These pseudo-claims are actually being paid...
Education: Let's Do Something Different by TAMMY DRENNAN Education: What About the Poor? by CHRIS CARDIFF Excerpt: In various forms, the question "what do we do about the poor?" outstrips all others as the most frequently asked question about separating school and state. The implicit assumption, only natural after 60 years of the welfare state and 150 years of government control of education, is that government is the only entity capable of looking out for the poor and educating them. Educational Vouchers: The Double Tax Excerpt: We are continually bombarded by newspaper and magazine headlines informing us of the continuing "crisis in education," which actually is a crisis in government-operated education. Emerging 'Voucher Left' Could Alter School Choice Debate by BRANDON DUTCHER Excerpt: He who pays the piper calls the tune... vouchers will come with strings attached which will emasculate private schools. Euphemisms mislead - Bluntness needed by MARSHALL FRITZ Excerpt: Bobbie Gentry, of Jumping-off-the-Tallahatchie-Bridge fame, once told me, "Euphemism is a euphemism for lying"... Return to Top -F- Freedom Lovers Against Tax-Funded Vouchers by MARSHALL FRITZ Freedom Lovers For Tax-Funded Vouchers by MARSHALL FRITZ List of prominent freedom-lovers who favor tax-funded vouchers (1996). Four Ways Vouchers Harm Education by MARSHALL FRITZ Excerpt: These four factors will change the culture of the private school to be more like today's government school. In other words, when the "Choice" advocates succeed, they won't enjoy the choice they are left with because the private schools will have become merely government schools run by private operators. Future of Education is Now, The Return to Top -G- Give to Caesar What is Caesars’s by BONNIE J. HORN
Great Brain Robbery Seizes Millions of Minds Excerpt: Public schools are brain dead and on life support; so let’s pull the plug on them, give them a decent funeral, and let better alternatives take root and flourish. How I Found Myself Squirming Uncomfortably in Support of Tax-Funded Education Vouchers Excerpt: From 1968, when I first read an article by Milton Friedman, until early 1995. I liked the idea [of tax-funded vouchers] because I thought they would reduce the role of government in education.
How to Separate School and State: A Primer Excerpt: A forceful case for eliminating the role of government in education has been stated in the previous article. This essay will provide an introductory answer to the "how" question. Efforts to achieve separation of school and state can be divided into three categories, by order of importance: entrepreneurial, educational, and political.
Return to Top -I- I Like This Feeling Return to Top -J- Jeff Jacoby Calls for Separation of School and State - AGAIN by TAMMY DRENNAN Excerpt: Responding to yet another high court decision that says parents have no rights regarding what their children are taught in public school, award-winning columnist Jeff Jacoby has publicly stated for the second time now that the only real solution to the war between parents and the state is for parents to go on the offense and take their children back. Just Like Curious George by MARSHALL FRITZ Originally published in The Education Liberator, Vol. 2, No. 5, June 1996 Return to Top -K- Return to Top -L- Learning about Schooling in Rural Colombia (en español) by MARSHALL FRITZ Losing Supreme Control Excerpt: Vouchers have nothing to do with improving public schools and everything to do with controlling and thereby destroying private education. Even a proponent of vouchers admits the danger... Return to Top -M- More Practicalities of Separating School & State by MARSHALL FRITZ Originally published in The Education Liberator, Vol. 2, No. 2, March 1996 Return to Top -N-
The "Black Hole" of Special Education by LINDA SCHROCK TAYLOR Excerpt: Every year, thousands of our children disappear into the vagueness of special placements, never to be released from the labels and stigma; never to escape and again be seen as "normal"...
by LINDA SCHROCK TAYLOR A follow-up article that discusses "black-hole" statistics.
Not Yours to Give from the Life of COLONEL DAVID CROCKETT compiled by EDWARD S. ELLIS One of two enchanting stories making a powerful point that bears on tax-funded vouchers. This speaks to evil. The other (The Wild and Free Pigs of the Okefenokee Swamp) to entrapment. Return to Top -O- On Being Salt and Light by FREDERICK C. FOOTE Excerpt: Our understanding of the Bible on this point suggests that quite the opposite conclusion may be true. If we really want our children to be salt and light in this world, the public school classroom may be the last place they should be. Our Mission [1997]: Build a Constituency for "Separation" Excerpt: Our goal is to end government involvement in elementary and secondary education in the United States. Our job is to build a constituency for Separation. That constituency will act-through many independent organizations-to see Separation accomplished. Return to Top -P- Playing at Markets: Vouchers as a Socialist Trap Excerpt: Since I switched my opinion about vouchers some three years ago, I have found a number of arguments against them. But the strongest case by far is that vouchers are wrong for the same reason that government schooling is wrong.
Public Education versus Liberty: Excerpt: That education is in a state of crisis has become something of an axiom. Parents and politicians alike are deeply concerned about the state of our schools. Parents because their children come home from school without the ability to read or write or do sums properly, politicians because infuriated parents threaten political revolt to punish those held responsible.
Return to Top -Q- Return to Top -R- Reasons Home Schoolers Should Avoid Government Vouchers Excerpt: If no strings are attached to vouchers, why waste the time and money sending tax dollars through a complicated bureaucracy only to be returned to the parents? Red Pajamas, Blue Pajamas Excerpt: In order to improve education, American parents must again be responsible for their children's education. This means nothing less than ending state, federal, and local government involvement with the financing and content of K-12 schooling. This will allow parents to make real decisions, not just choose between red pajamas and blue pajamas. Refuting the Voucherites Excerpt: What is different about the voucher program decided in Zelman, however, is that the voucher goes directly to the parents and not to any school. However, in light of the recent avalanche of federal education legislation, especially Bush's No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, does this difference actually make a difference? Restoring Parental Responsibility for Education by MARSHALL FRITZ Excerpt: It is apparent why we have such an epidemic of parental irresponsibility: government has become the great enabler of irresponsibility and dependence. How to begin to cure it? … Rise of the American Empire (en español)by CATHY CUTHBERT Excerpt: If you are a regular reader of the literature of liberty, at some point you must have wondered how Americaacquired an empire. How did a national government based on the premise that all men are created equal, segue into the subjugation of men living in other countries? How did a people so profoundly uninterested in foreign people and foreign affairs become hoodwinked ... Return to Top -S- Satan Has No Brakes by MARSHALL FRITZ and E. RAY MOORE, JR. Excerpt: Government schools teach students — for 180 days each year for 13 years — that eternity is so unimportant that it's not worth mentioning... Government schools accelerate the failing culture in undermining Christian parents. They eradicate hope. They maximize alienation. School Voucher MytH, The Excerpt: Keep in mind that these [voucher advocates] are not evil men, plotting the destruction of freedom. Indeed, they are sincere, honorable men of good will, with the best of intentions, but mistaken. School Wars: Who Will Win? by TAMMY DRENNAN If you’re a combatant, please give some thought to the following. If you know a combatant, please share this with him or her. Separation Not Only for Libertarians and Christians, Anymore by STEVE SMITHExcerpt: For three decades now, the answer to the "problem" of religious diversity in the schools has been a hypersensitive neutrality that has pleased few. SepCon '96 - Rolling Back the "Teacher-State" by MARSHALL FRITZ
Sunday School, Monday School by MARSHALL FRITZ Neither is the Business of Government (en español) Excerpt: Some people think that the American "public school system" is broken so they try to fix it. The truth is that public schooling is not broken. Rather, it is succeeding in its main objective — strengthen government by undermining parents... Return to Top -T- Ten Benefits of School Liberation by MARSHALL FRITZ and CATHY DUFFY What schools will look like after the transformation to school liberation. Ten Good Reasons for Free Market Schooling by MARSHALL FRITZ pdf file - Get Adobe Reader Excerpt: Free Market Schooling means educational services are offered without compulsion or subsidy by any level of government. This means repealing the compulsion of financing, attendance, content, and state regulation of teachers and institutions that are central to today's "public schooling"... They Pry Them from Our Cold Dead Fingers by SHARON HARRIS Excerpt: And suddenly I realize that just about everyone in the room allows government workers to come every day and take away something—something far more precious than any piece of metal. Return to Top -U- Return to Top -V- The Voucher Trap by GORDON FRANCIS CORBETT Excerpt: After the Supreme Court ruled that school vouchers are Constitutional, some authorities said that vouchers are just as Constitutional as the G.I. Bill was. They are right, but not in the way they intend. Vouchers and Educational Freedom: A Debate between JOSEPH L. BAST & DAVID HARMER vs. DOUGLAS DEWEY Excerpt: Advocates of educational freedom disagree about whether school vouchers would liberate schools and families and lead to greater freedom of choice or trap private schools in a web of subsidy and regulation that would destroy their independence and quality. The two sides square off in this study. Vouchers: Another Name for Welfare by LLEWELLYN H. ROCKWELL, JR. Excerpt: So here is the essence of the program approved by the Supreme Court. It takes taxes paid by the earning classes to give to poor parents who enjoy an exclusive right to leave public schools they weren’t paying for anyway to attend private schools which now accept controls over admissions and tuition and curriculum (becoming public schools, in effect). Vouchers Are Bad News for Freedom Lovers by MARSHALL FRITZ Excerpt: Conservatarians must see that there's no way to get good education based on coercion. Vouchers Are Just Another Welfare Scheme by JACOB G. HORNBERGER Excerpt: If proponents of school vouchers get their way, Americans might well be permanently saddled with one of the most massive government welfare programs in history. Vouchers: Constitutional But Dangerous by THOMAS WASHBURNE, ESQ Excerpt: Vouchers are not equivalent to cash. By their very nature, vouchers are susceptible to government control and strings.
by T. C. PINCKNEY We're Winning! by MARSHALL FRITZ by MARSHALL FRITZ
Why We Won't Hush: A Response to Bast and Harmer by MARSHALL FRITZ
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