No Regrets
The center-right blogosphere has been abuzz lately over John Stossel’s “20/20” report, “Stupid in America.” And rightly so. Stossel is really good at what he does. Here’s one Stossel observation that really jumped out at me: “[Kevin] Chavous and many other education professionals say Americans don’t know that their public schools, on the whole, just aren’t that good. Because without competition, parents don’t know what their kids might have had.”
What their kids might have had. Selah. If there’s one regret you don’t want to have when you’re 60, it’s that you didn’t provide the best possible education for your children. “To educate children well,” Noah Webster wrote in the first edition of his American dictionary, “is one of the most important duties of parents and guardians.”
So rather than simply sending your children to whatever school the government assigns them to (imagine the absurdity of obeying a bureaucrat who tells you, “Based on the neighborhood you live in, we’ve determined you can only buy your groceries at Crest”), parents would do well to investigate teaching their own children at home or sending them to an excellent school like this one.
Just to see what they're missing.
What their kids might have had. Selah. If there’s one regret you don’t want to have when you’re 60, it’s that you didn’t provide the best possible education for your children. “To educate children well,” Noah Webster wrote in the first edition of his American dictionary, “is one of the most important duties of parents and guardians.”
So rather than simply sending your children to whatever school the government assigns them to (imagine the absurdity of obeying a bureaucrat who tells you, “Based on the neighborhood you live in, we’ve determined you can only buy your groceries at Crest”), parents would do well to investigate teaching their own children at home or sending them to an excellent school like this one.
Just to see what they're missing.
