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Liberty Magazine August 2000.Pdf Mime Type Sex and the August 2000 $4.00 City "The supreme goal ofall human development is liberty" -MichaelBakunin It.s Time to Put Public Schooling behind Us ..:.:.:.:.:.:............. by Richard M. Ebeling ucational system, But the pri­ ing to opt out into a better tionallayer of a state certifi­ vate-sector managers of char­ alternative. cation process enabling them ter schools are given greater The problem, however, is to teach at the primary or latitude in structuring teach­ that the government contin­ secondary level of schooling. ing methods to meet the ues to be a giant stumbling Furthermore, it is inevi­ needs of their students. And block standing in the way of table that over time, charter equally important from the parental choice. For millions schools will become another parents' point of view, they of families, homeschooling is vested interest determined to are able to impose more de­ simply not feasible, either limit any innovations or new , manding standards on stu­ because they cannot afford for competitors that may threaten dent conduct to prevent anti­ one of the parents to stay their enrollments and the tax social and violent behavior. home to educate their chil­ dollars they receive from the There is no better indication The benefits of home­ dren or because of the par­ state. of the failure of and increas­ schooling have also become ents' own inability to satis­ It's time, therefore, to re­ ing disappointment with apparent. There is more indi­ factorily educate their chil­ think the entire idea of public public education in the Unit­ vidual attention, and the dren in various subjects. At schooling in America. It's time ed States than the growth in child is able to learn at his the same time, the burden of to consider whether it would the number of charter own pace. And more and federal, state, and local taxes be better to completely priva­ schools and homeschooled more homeschoolers are out.,. imposes too great a strain on tize the entire educational students. A new study re­ performing their counterparts family budgets to afford the process from kindergarten leased by the federal govern­ in public schools, in terms of costs of a private school, es­ through the Ph.D. With the ment reported that the num­ both classroom performance pecially when there is more state no longer responsible for ber of charter schools in the and college admission. than one child to educate. education, the local, state, and 27 states in which they oper­ Moreover, homeschool­ Charter schools seem to federal government taxes im­ ate increased by 40 percent ing isn't limited to Caucasian offer a partial answer to this posed for the present system in 1998-1999. Almost 1,700 religious families concerned problem, since some of the could be abolished. The tax of them serve more than with an excessively secular­ tax dollars paid by the par­ dollars left in the hands of the 400,000 students. ized education in the public­ ents to the state or feder.al citizenry would then be avail­ The number of children school system. It is estimated government pay the costs of able for families to use direct­ being homeschooled by their that 4 percent of home­ tuition on a per-pupil basis. 1y to pay for their own chil­ parents has also grown by schooling families are black, Charter schools, however, are dren's education. The free leaps and bounds. In 1996, with another 4 p~rcent in the not the same as independent, market would supply an infin­ the Department of Education Hispanic community. private schools. They remain itely diverse range of educa­ estimated that the number of It is clear that a growing .part of the public-school sys­ tional vehicles for everyone. homeschoolers was some­ number of American families tern, especially since they And families would finally be where between 700,000 and have lost confidence in the still have to conform to a free to select the best educa­ 750,000. Homeschooling public-school system. An state-mandated curriculum tional vehicle for each of their advocates say that the num­ increasingly dumbed-down and are mostly limited to children. ber increased to as many as curriculum, with an empha­ hiring teachers certified by 1.5 million in 1999. sis on "politically correct" the state. Qualified college­ Professor Ebeling is vice president Since charter schools op­ fads and fashions, as well as level chemistry or math pro­ ofacademic affairs for The Future erate with public funds that a concern about the safety fessors, for example, cannot of Freedom Foundation cover the tuitions of the stu­ and security of the school be permanently employed in (wwwfff.org) in Fairfax, Va., and dents attending them, they environment, has resulted in a charter school unless they the Ludwig von Mises Professor of remain a part of the state ed- more and more parents' try- have gone through the addi- Economics at Hillsdale College. THE FUTURE OF FREEDOM FOUNDATION 11350 Random Hills Road, Suite 800 We Don't Fairfax, VA 22030 Phone: (703) 934-6101- Fax: (703) 352-8678 Compromise. Email: [email protected] www.fff.org Order: Visit our website: One-year (12 months) www.fff.org SUbscription to freedom Da;I, • More than 900 essays! and (FFF's monthlyJournal of libertarian essays) • Interactive Debate Forum! at $18 • Free email update! Send to FFF • Plus much MORE! 11350 Random Hills Road, Suite 800 Fairfax, VA 22030 August 2000 Inside Liberty Volume 14, Number 8 R.W. Bradford 4 Letters As always, our readers get the first word. editor & publisher Stephen Cox 7 Reflections Liberty's editors celebrate the rights of rats, beat back the John Hospers Nanny State, join the anti-tech revolution, expose the latest assault on Jane S. Shaw freedom of thought, and wonder what New York's finest are good for. senior Brien Features David Boaz 19 The Life and Death of Peter McWilliams R. W. Bradford Alan Bock Douglas Casey remembers his friend, Peter McWilliams, the best-selling author killed by EricD. Dixon a federal government crusade. BrianDoherty 21 Why Liberty Is As Much Fun as Medical Marijuana Peter David Friedman McWilliams talks about his love of liberty and about the illegal drug was J. OrlinGrabbe saving his life until the state took it away from him. Bettina Bien Greaves LeonT.Hadar 25 In the Matter of the Killing of Vicki Weaver In 1992, FBI agent Gene Healy Lon Horiuchi shot and killed a mother holding her baby in her arms. On Robert Higgs June 14, a federal court ruled that the Constitution prohibits Horiuchi's Bill· Kauffman being tried for his offense. Judge Alex Kosinski dissents. David Kopel 32 The Greatest Generation?!? Merrel Clubb explains why Tom Bart Kosko Richard· Kostelanetz Brokaw's IIGeneration" bestsellers do not begin to describe the generation Loren.·E.Lomask.}i that fought World War II. Parental discretion advised. Sarah McCarth}i 35 Who Really Burned Los Alamos? A bureaucratic blunder touched Wendy McElroy off the conflagration in New Mexico, but, Robert Nelson explains, the real Peter McWilliams cause is the politics of the Clinton administration and the Forest Service. Robert H.Nelson Randal O'Toole 37 Between a Rock and a Hard Case Gene Healy explains why the Ross Overbeek kind of libertarian thinking that would keep Elian Gonzalez in the U.S. Durk Pearson leads to tyranny. Dyanne Petersen 39 Sex and the City Sarah McCarthy denounces the New Puritanism, Ralph Raico which enabled Bill Bennett to drive Rudy Giulani out of the race against Bruce Ramsey ScottJ.Reid Hillary Clinton for the New York Senate seat. Sheldon Richman 41 Genocide: Good and Bad Oliver Becker reports from Europe on the SandySha"" strange notion that Austria should be punished for tolerating a right-wing Tim Slagle political party, while Russia is rewarded .for attempting genocide in Fred L. Smith,]r. Chechnya. ClarkStooksbury ThomasS.. Szasz Reviews Leland B. Yeager contributing editors 43 Liberty, Property, and Mr. Madison Timothy Sandefur looks at the career of America's least known (and most libertarian) Founder. 45 Reclaiming the Republican Dream Stephen Cox reviews Robert Novak's case for a renewed attack on the state. 47 Middle-American Quack Bruce Ramsey looks at the career of America's looniest vice president. 51 The Politics of Honor David Kopel recalls an America where honor mattered, and the politics of expediency was reviled. ~:~ 52 Notes on Contributors Who we are and what we do. 61 Terra Incognita Dispatches from reality. How to [-====================================Le======:tt======:er======:s============================:J Subscribe Did you hear the one about the unlikely that the Cuban government little boy kidnapped at gunpoint will torture or murder Elian in the middle of the night? Gonzalez." On the contrary, if Elian to Your July issue (emphasis on Elian) comes to part with communist dogma was a joke, wasn't it? Just trying to see and has the audacity to do so openly how your readers would react? How - in a pamphlet or protest, for else to account for your multi-faceted instance - several provisions of the departures from sound, objective Cuban Penal Code and Constitution journalism? (so-called) will have been violated. Having displayed such criminal"dan­ Liberty takes individual Don F. Hanlen Benton City, Wash. gerousness" and"disrespect," Elian freedom seriously ... and will become intimate with Castro's ter­ the status quo with more The Climax of the Sandefurs ror apparatus (tip-top despite the U.S. than one grain of salt! WOW! Timothy Sandefur wrote the embargo). If Elian maintains his dis­ best article in your July issue. sent in silence, he'll only have to I was a modern day Copperhead, Every issue of Liberty brings endure compulsory labor and you news you can't miss, but I ain't no longer.
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