I don’t really blog much about american issues. After all, I’m not American and have never had any intention of ever living there, although like most places I guess it has both good and bad points.
One of these bad points would be the politicians.
Barak Obama is recently quoted as saying “We need to focus on fixing and improving our public schools, not throwing our hands up and walking away from them” during a meeting of the American Federation of Teachers when he mentioned his opposition to school voucher programs.
All well and good you may think.
Mr Obama has two children, where does he send them to school?
He sends them to the private University of Chicargo Laboratory school where tuition costs $20,000 a year per pupil. As a rich person Obama can afford this, meanwhile ordinary people have to send their kids to the local taxpayer funded school and wait for the politicians to improve the standards.
I have a better idea. How about introducing education vouchers in the UK and also allow anyone to set up schools without any restrictions. The free market would soon see a plethoria of new schools opening and give the parents *REAL* choice in where to send their kids. Standards would soar as good schools were opened and expanded and bad schools closed. The cost to the taxpayer would also go down by £24billion as I have blogged here. Indeed, this is such a good idea it is actually the Libertarian Partys policy.
Of course, there would be losers. But would any sensible person actually mind bad teachers getting sacked, beaurocrats being thrown on the dole and taxation going down.
Another upside is that it would annoy the stupid hypocrites like Obama as their stupidity was exposed for all to see.
Hat tip to Coyote Blog for details of Obamas hypocracy.
