Government Schools

Government Schools Are Bad for Your Kids is a devastating critique of K-12 government schools and an urgent plea for parents to withdraw their kids for their own good and the good of the nation. For over fifty years, the schools have been the subject of harsh criticism from the left and the right. Yet, all reform efforts have failed since the special interests have blocked various school choice proposals. After too many decades of failed promises, it is time to declare America's experiment in government schools a failure. It is time to pull the plug.

A leading conservative intellectual defends charter schools against the teachers' unions, politicians, and liberal educators who threaten to dismantle their success.

In 2009, Jim Ostrowski published a book called Government Schools Are Bad for Your Kids: What You Need to Know. He urged Americans to pull their kids out immediately. But Americans weren’t ready to listen. Now, 12 years later, after the left-wing takeover of the schools, a record number of school shootings last year and after the two cruel years of the Lockdown, Americans are finally ready to declare that America’s 170-year-old experiment with government schools has failed. In this new sequel, Ostrowski finds that government schools are worse in every way and proposes a bold political ...

This book argues that the structure of public education is a key factor in the failure of America's public education system to fulfill the intellectual, civic, and moral aims for which it was created. The book challenges the philosophical basis for the traditional common school model and defends the educational pluralism that most liberal democracies enjoy. Berner provides a unique theoretical pathway that is neither libertarian nor state-focused and a pragmatic pathway that avoids the winner-takes-all approach of many contemporary debates about education.