Charter schools aren’t going to save education, but Classical Learning may.
Even our military academies are infected with the neo-Marxist, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion indoctrination, and those are future military leaders. K-12 education is not going to be saved by giving parents vouchers and charter schools. Some parents don’t know or care what is being taught to their children.
Education won’t be saved with a “no effort, no guidance” legislative approach. It will take good people forcing ostensibly good institutions to get involved.
I blame Catholics. I don’t blame them because it feels subversive, while nobody will actually disagree. The Catholic Church has the organization and resources to improve education, and they apparently haven’t done anything.
There are many prestigious universities that are Catholic in name only. Universities like the University of Notre Dame, Georgetown, Fordham, Seton Hall, Loyola and Boston College. Most play along with the degeneracy found at public universities. These universities along with the dozens of smaller Catholic universities could have offered a classically liberal education and a modest campus environment.
St. Richards, the parish I grew up in, closed it’s school just about the time public schools were being dumbed down. Parochial schools could have been offered an education without all of the nonsense present in public schools. A little morality and a lot of rigor would have been very popular.
There are many other parochial schools and religiously affiliated universities. The Catholic Church bears more blame because they have a huge war chest, existing schools and a large membership.
We used to be a Christian nation. Membership is declining along with social cohesion and our culture. Religious institutions could be players in the culture war, but choose not to be.
Establishing Classical Learning charter schools is a plausible solution.
In all, there are about 250 classical charters today, according to one study, making them a small niche within the broader charter sector of 8,000 schools and campuses focused on everything from STEM subjects to art to special needs.
This process would go much faster if the 100 million devout Christians in America helped.