Public Education: Getting to the Root of the Problem

A short time ago, when I was just getting started in politics, I met a couple of people who were members of the Constitution Party, (CP). Since they were friends of mine I decided to look into it and see what they stood for. As I read the platform I saw a lot of things that I agreed with, pro-life, pro-family, limited government, ect… Yet as I read on I saw something that caught my eye, it was the CP’s stance on education:

“All teaching is related to basic assumptions about God and man. Education as a whole, therefore, cannot be separated from religious faith. The law of our Creator assigns the authority and responsibility of educating children to their parents. Education should be free from all federal government subsidies, including vouchers, tax incentives, and loans, except with respect to veterans. Because the federal government has absolutely no jurisdiction concerning the education of our children, the United States Department of Education should be abolished; all federal legislation related to education should be repealed. No federal laws subsidizing or regulating the education of children should be enacted. Under no circumstances should the federal government be involved in national teacher certification, education curricula, textbook selection, learning standards, comprehensive sex education, psychological and psychiatric research testing programs and personnel.”… (1)

I was somewhat taken aback, I agreed that our schools had a lot of problems but to get rid of public education altogether sounded so extreme! What possible reasons could they give, I wondered, as to the purpose of this reactionary and uncalled for measure? As I grew in my understanding and continued to read and think I too became convinced of the correctness of the CP’s agenda on this issue and others. However as I was investigating it I could find no defense of this attack on public education. So I as a member of the Constitution Party I want to lay out the case against public education and get to the root of the problem!  My argument can be laid out in six points. 
 While best viewed as a whole I know that 
the length would deter many people.  
So I have divided the article into six different posts which I will post at various times.