by Rep. Charles Wilson
Vermont School Boards create their own vision, policies, hire a union superintendent, give their budget to the voters, and monitor student performance. This all sounds good, except when policies come from the U.N. 2030 Agenda for Global Governance directives, then to the Federal and State Governments, then the supervisory unions, and then to the public schools.
This takes the voice of the people and parents out of negotiations and puts the power into the hands of bureaucrats. Parents and taxpayers should be first!
School boards and public schools implement rules that are controlled by area school supervisory unions that take huge taxpayer funded salaries. Public schools will receive no money if they do not comply with the Woke agenda. School boards for public schools don’t follow their own rules but hush parents and those of common sense and instead insist on indoctrination of our children instead of focusing on quality education curriculums.
The U.S. Constitution on Education does not address education, but from court cases in the States as of 2021, American children are to have high quality, equal education regardless of race, income, location etc.
Children should not ‘lead the way’ but be loved and directed by good parenting because they are dependents who want guidance to be prepared for a good and productive life – not to believe foolishness that is not truth. Many are angry, confused, unstable and many unable to even sit quietly to learn. We have seen a huge decline in test scores in English (reading/writing) and Math, which are especially low, and have learned that now only 21% could successfully enter college or the military. School boards and superintendents suffer no penalties for poor job performance but our students fall victim to socialism and many students end up with no hope or vision for their lives.
How did supervisory unions come to run our schools? The main function of a union school was to permit the creation of larger high schools in rural areas. In 2018 the school system in Vermont was built for 100,000 students. It’s now only educating 76,000 at over $23,586 per student, plus now an addition of free school meals at taxpayers’ expense.
The state of Vermont spent $1.6 billion dollars to educate 76,000 students, the largest per capita in the U.S.A., and twice the national average. There are less students and yet the cost keeps going up. 2023 we see more, more funding required from tax-payers, with test scores and learning at an all-time low. $23,586 per student, plus the U.N. plan for free lunch, all at taxpayer expense. Parents raise the children, pay taxes and have NO voice.
What will reform education? God first, plus parents’ voices who will speak up for their children’s welfare and the adherence to our Constitution. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness and the Inalienable Rights from the only Creator.
Let us not let the U.N. take control of the United States The results can be seen in California, and Burlington here in Vermont. Homelessness, poverty, prostitution, child trafficking, gun violence and gang murders from drug dealers. Judges let repeat offenders go free, and illegal aliens too, all creating more taxes, taxes, taxes.
Rep. Wilson is a member of the House of Representatives. He lives in Lyndon.