When monopolies exist, outcomes for those forced to use them suffer. This is a truth for any industry, and education is no different. When variations are allowed to flourish in any industry, when competition is allowed to thrive, so do the outcomes of the customers who benefit.
We exist in a system that is dominated by state-run, and federally managed power brokers in education that have no interest or incentive to let new ideas, customized solutions or threats to their power exist. A Libertarian education system means tearing down this oppressive structure, allowing instead for parents to choose, customize and hold accountable by virtue of their dollars or enrollments, the best education for their children.
No sane person would demand less choice, especially when it comes to the future for their children. No sane person would demand continued failure, yet that’s exactly what the federal public schools system has delivered. No sane person would deny that humans are individuals with different needs, desires and ways of growing.
The brightest future for America’s children lies at the end of an endless prism of educational choices, not a factory churning out one low standard of failure.