Why Parents Are Home Schooling and Yanking Their Kids Out of Government Run Schools

Here is a perfect example of why I will never send my child to a government run school. This example is not an anomoly. Not only are our children not learning how to read and write and think critically (Time Magazine just did a cover story on how one third of high school students don’t graduate.) But they are also increasingly vulnerable to being raped, abused, and molested. As I have often said, government can’t run the DMV and Post Office efficiently, and they should not be in the teaching business. If only the Democrats and their number one donor/constituency the NEA (teachers’ union) would stop obstructing school choice, accountability, merit based pay, vouchers and other free market based competitive reforms. As long as we have a virtual monopoly on education our kids will continue to under-achieve especially the least advantaged students (blacks and hispanics). Government run education is essentially a socialist system which, like all government run monopolies/monopsonies always result in contrived scarcities, inferior quality, and rationing. But the fact that parents can’t trust teachers to protect the children to me is something Americans should not tolerate. Again, I will say, this is not an isolated incident.

Teacher charged with raping student 28 times
Police: Rachel Holt engaged in intercourse with 13-year-old

Thursday, April 6, 2006 Posted: 2000 GMT (0400 HKT)

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(CNN) — A Delaware schoolteacher was charged Tuesday with 28 counts of raping a minor after she allegedly engaged in a weeklong sexual relationship with a 13-year-old student, police said.

Rachel L. Holt, a 34-year-old science teacher at Claymont Elementary School, faces additional charges that she allowed a 12-year-old friend of the victim to watch them have sex at her home, and that she gave both boys beer, New Castle County acting Police Chief Scott McLaren said.

Robert Ziegler, a spokesman for the Brandywine School District, confirmed that two boys were allegedly involved in the incident.

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