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2024/10/09
Yes I am saying it. Abolish school. All of it.
Here is an example of how bloated schooling is. The 2024 budget of the Czech Republic, a relatively small and compact European state, is 2.9 trillion Czech crowns (CZK, a.k.a. koruna). The biggest expense in the budget is pensions for the elderly (706.2 billion), but the second one immediately after that is "Education and School services" (263.7 billion). Even though the Czech Republic is two countries away from an active Great War-style warzone with trenches and mass bombings, only 140.6 billion (!) is being allocated for defense, which is just 0.1 billion more than the "Other" section of all expenditures.
But why is the Czech Republic spending so much money on "education"? After all, there are fewer and fewer children being born in the country with the fertility rate below the replacement level. A great number of immigrants come as students, but they usually pay out of pocket unless they can prove their Czech language proficiency (and that itself filters most foreigners out), and the university professors are few. If any substantial money ever goes into the country's higher education system, that would normally be the administrative sphere. But that in itself is just the tip of the iceberg.
Most of that money goes into the black hole. Actually, quite often real-life holes. The holes that talk and walk, and make strange sounds. One can swear these things have something resembling a human brain inside their upper carcasses but upon closer examination all we see is emptiness. Those would be school teachers.
Governments have created two terrible monsters that eat up budgets and squander great wealth - pension and "education". That only 2% is spent on national defense and the government boasts about it as an achievement is appalling. Case in point - during the early 20th century, the fledgling Japanese Empire spent a whooping 50% of its budget on war alone. And yet nobody would dare claim that Japan's innovativeness, education, industriousness and talent were any worse off compared to their arrogant European peers. Yet today it seems normal that a government would spend more money on feeding a population of useless eaters instead of supporting its very reason to be - national sovereignty.
Pension alone is a great wound to finances of all, including the elderly - after all, they had no choice but to part with some money in their youth to finance whatever meager pennies they receive in their retirement. All of that money wasted away in its time, and promises of papers whose value was long eaten away by inflation is given back to them. What a rotten deal indeed.
Oh but wait till we get to the teachers. Yes, those talentless creatures tasked with spending time around your children. They might seem meek and poor (and often they are poor indeed!) but every government is terrified of this great force of incompetents. Do not forget one of the most important things about the world we live in today = everyone has the right to vote.
In distant Russia the school teachers, the frigid fat stunted dwarves with strange hair and even stranger ideas coming out of their upper orifices, are the primary cohort supporting whatever Putin's successive governments have done since 2000. Be it the bloody wars Russia started at the United States' and Brussels' reluctant indifference (prior to the disastrous Ukraine invasion of 2022, at least) or something as inconsequential to me as the country's retirement age hike of 2018.
Between falsifying national and state elections and being used as a fodder on state-organized demonstrations (along with college students), the (majority female) school teachers are busy telling kids (especially boys) that they have to die for them (the females) and the nation that these female teachers are a part of. Overseas, the same class of school teachers, now unionized, is mobilized by the Democratic apparatus to hold the elections, local, state and national, with the results clearly evident in the travesty that was the 2020 presidential elections in the U.S.
Schoolteachers are a giant mass of mediocrity. Compared with the university professors, most of whom are also faceless bureaucrats, schoolteachers far surpass their higher education "peers" in irrelevancy. How many teachers publish peer-reviewed papers? How many math teachers wrote a book advancing the science of mathematics? Do they even understand what they teach? Do they even bother if the kids imprisoned under their surveillance learn anything in the first place?
In the United States, employers and recruiters sometimes complain that the new employees struggle with something as basic as writing an e-mail. That alone is, of course, a monumental task, compared to something as basic as knowing algebra. But it gets even worse, when more and more kids graduate out of schools as illiterates and innumerates. The decline in the quality of offspring is its own topic I will cover later, but it is quite clear that schooling cannot fix the inherent inferiority of the new generations, born to older and older parents, with more and more congential disorders, diseases and deficiencies. The absence of Darwinian forces to regulate these aspects only aggravates the problem. But even if you subscribe to non-deterministic viewpoint that somehow school prepares kids for "success" you cannot possibly persuade me that doing the same thing that led to what schools have become will one day produce different results. Quite the contrary, as school funding soared, and as school teacher salaries rose (albeit remaining below those of "real jobs" that are in demand by the market), the outcomes have only gotten worse. You keep producing favorable conditions to an organism, and it will only grow and proliferate. You cannot turn a pack of rodents into cattle by feeding them bigger portions. All you get is larger, more aggressive rodents.
So, what is the solution then? Very simple:
Abolish all schools.
Overnight. The powers that be in your country should make it so that the mandatory schooling is no more.
Furthermore, all private schools may operate as private businesses, if they so wish. But nobody should force anyone to attend school, and nobody should expect to be employed or get paid as a school teacher any more than a technician or a dishwasher.
What will happen to school teachers? They will either find a job or go homeless and hungry, as anyone should.
If they try to rebel, then they should be killed by the armed populace and the police employed by the same populace to uphold law and order.
What will happen to the kids? I honestly do not care. They are not my kids. If they become a nuisance, then they should be thrown to jail and taught some life lessons. If they go violent, then they should be punished violently.
Entire nations face existential threats, posed by enormous foreign armies with countless nuclear arsenals ready to be used to obliterate their enemies. If good people disarm themselves because they erroneously wish that they need to sustain lives of parasitic classes that steal the resources of their armies as they poison the minds of their children with enemy propaganda, then soon there will be no good people left.