Letters to the Editor 10-15-2003
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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Libertarian Positions
Editor, Times-Union:Attached to this letter is the Libertarian Party of Kosciusko County's official platform position on government involvement in formal education. It is also our response to the Warsaw Community School board's decision to close three elementary schools, spend money on overpriced building projects and put athletics as a top priority over academics, and the general nature of the near-monopoly that government schools have over formal education.
Separation of School and State
The LPKC supports the end of the near-monopoly government has on education with the introduction of freedom of choice in the area of education.
1. This means that the state of Indiana, its school districts, colleges and universities will need to stop accepting funding from the national government and the related controls and regulations that come with accepting such funding.
2. The Indiana General Assembly will need to abolish the Indiana Department of Education, end compulsory school attendance laws, end taxpayer funding at the state level, end the collection of local property taxes for funding of school districts and dissolve those school districts, plus it will need to end taxpayer funding for universities and colleges.
3. Local school districts will need to take care of the sale, transfer or conversion of school property and employee issues such as job placement, salary and benefit packages/retirement.
4. Article 8 of the Indiana State Constitution dealing with the establishment of public education will need to be repealed by the Indiana General Assembly.
5. An amendment to the Indiana State Constitution should prohibit the future establishment of compulsory government schools whether at the local, township, county or state levels.
6. Alternatives to compulsory government schools will need to be organized before the final dissolving of government schools, and establishment of alternative schools should be accomplished within a 20-year period.
7. Once this has been done, compulsory government schools will be replaced by religious schools, both for-profit and non-profit public/community schools, groups of parental cooperatives and home schooling. Basically, whatever form of voluntary education parents, students and teachers feel will best meet their particular needs and wants.
8. This will give the parents, students and teachers the option of choosing schools that are secular or religious, liberal or conservative, college-prep or vocational, academic-oriented or athletic-oriented, or one of the many options that come with freedom of choice in education.
Alexander Houze
Secretary of the LPKC
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Editor, Times-Union:Attached to this letter is the Libertarian Party of Kosciusko County's official platform position on government involvement in formal education. It is also our response to the Warsaw Community School board's decision to close three elementary schools, spend money on overpriced building projects and put athletics as a top priority over academics, and the general nature of the near-monopoly that government schools have over formal education.
Separation of School and State
The LPKC supports the end of the near-monopoly government has on education with the introduction of freedom of choice in the area of education.
1. This means that the state of Indiana, its school districts, colleges and universities will need to stop accepting funding from the national government and the related controls and regulations that come with accepting such funding.
2. The Indiana General Assembly will need to abolish the Indiana Department of Education, end compulsory school attendance laws, end taxpayer funding at the state level, end the collection of local property taxes for funding of school districts and dissolve those school districts, plus it will need to end taxpayer funding for universities and colleges.
3. Local school districts will need to take care of the sale, transfer or conversion of school property and employee issues such as job placement, salary and benefit packages/retirement.
4. Article 8 of the Indiana State Constitution dealing with the establishment of public education will need to be repealed by the Indiana General Assembly.
5. An amendment to the Indiana State Constitution should prohibit the future establishment of compulsory government schools whether at the local, township, county or state levels.
6. Alternatives to compulsory government schools will need to be organized before the final dissolving of government schools, and establishment of alternative schools should be accomplished within a 20-year period.
7. Once this has been done, compulsory government schools will be replaced by religious schools, both for-profit and non-profit public/community schools, groups of parental cooperatives and home schooling. Basically, whatever form of voluntary education parents, students and teachers feel will best meet their particular needs and wants.
8. This will give the parents, students and teachers the option of choosing schools that are secular or religious, liberal or conservative, college-prep or vocational, academic-oriented or athletic-oriented, or one of the many options that come with freedom of choice in education.
Alexander Houze
Secretary of the LPKC
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