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Gary North’s Specific Answers – Gary North – 12/31/2012
Critics of mass murder need
to pay attention to underlying cause and effect. The liberal critics of mass
murder argue that guns cause mass murder. I argue that mass murderers do.
Critics of mass murder say that we need to ban guns in order to protect defenseless
children. I argue that we should not send defenseless children into harm’s way.
The problem is not gun ownership.
The problem is an educational system which produces mass murderers and then
provides them with victims.
The media liberals and a few
liberal politicians call for bans against guns as a way to stop school
shootings. The better way is to pass laws banning tax-funded education. Just
stop the funding.
Skeptics will say this. “The
government needs tax-funded education. The government needs public schools to
educate children in good citizenship.” What is good citizenship? Good
citizenship involves the acceptance of a system which taxes your money by force
in order to place your children on a yellow bus which
takes them to a drug emporium where they are taught that they are descendents
of wild animals, and where drug-dependent psychotics can walk into a classroom
and shoot them.
It turns out that one
teacher can easily teach 100 or 1,000 students, as long as the exams are graded
by software programs. A program can decide the programmed answer in true/false
exams and multiple-choice exams. Since the SAT and ACT exams are graded this
way, there is no reason for high schools not to adopt this kind of educational
tool. SAT and ACT exams screen high school graduates for college. Then there
are CLEP exams: Collage Level Examination Program. There are AP exams: Advanced
Placement. These exams let students get full college credit. They are graded by
computers. So, why not screen all high school students this way? If it's good
enough for college, it's good enough for high school.
This means that a high
school needs exactly one teacher for each course. It does not need half a dozen
algebra teachers to teach algebra. It hires just one math teacher to teach in
front of a
$90 Kodak Playtouch pocket camcorder, which is placed on a $20 tripod and
focused on a whiteboard, plus a $20 Audio Technica ATR
3350 microphone. Edit the videos with $50
Sony Movie Studio editing software. The videos will be posted on YouTube.
Can this work? It is working
for the Khan Academy, which has over 3,000
free videos. This site will teach all academic high school courses within a few
years, plus many college-level courses.
It is working for Harvard,
MIT, and the University of Texas. It is working for 33 major universities
that are part of the Coursera online program.
This approach would be fabulously cost-effective. Here is why.
High schools can fire all
but one teacher per academic field.
They can fire the coaches.
They can sell the campuses.
They can fire the
maintenance staff.
They can sell the school
buses.
They can fire 90% of the
administrators.
The district pays local businesses
to take on apprentices for shop classes. The students learn from successful
businessmen how to ply their trade.
Alternatively, the district
uses the money made by selling the high school campuses to build well-stocked
shops. The district then offers retired professionals free rent and free
apprentices: charter schools. They keep any money made through making repairs
or building things. If necessary, the district pays them a fee per student,
such as $1,000 for a 9-month year.
Public high schools are free
day care centers for parents of teenagers. Parents like the subsidy during
their children's "difficult years." This benefit is summarized in
this phrase: "Here. You take 'em."
If you are teenager, public
high schools are all about sex, drugs, and sports. It's hard to compete against
this trifecta of tax-funded education.
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