Good students bolt inflexible public schools, test scores drop

South Carolina's PASS scores were lower this year than last.

Barry Bolen, Chm. of the state
Board of  Education supports Common
Core, despite legislative efforts to
eliminate Common Core. 

According to test results released by the S.C. Department of Education this week, standardized test scores fell in all grade levels in 2014.

The common reaction is hand-wringing, blame and political jockeying. None of that ever works.

The truth is, our good students are as good as any. They are likely to come from two-parent households, and their parents are involved and contribute to the well-being of the student.

Performance has little to do with the amount of money spent on schools, but the politicians know children are an easy sell to upping tax revenues, so education is a goldmine in the industry.

Truth is: districts where cycles of poor social behavior by the parents, punish children.

And there could be another reason for lower scores.

Bright children are getting out of public schools.

Because of the cookie-cutter, iron-hand failure of so many public schools, smart parents, who want better for their children are taking them out of the public education system.

Just look at Common Core. It is being forced on parents, and children, despite strong opposition.

Failure-laden, education insiders want a federal, politics-based set of standards pushed in the public classroom.

And parents who are losing the fight against Common Core will walk, if it is implemented, even as the legislators vote to eliminate Common Core.

There are members of the state School Board and Education Oversight Committee who are resisting the directive to reject Common Core Standards.

The media love Common Core, too.

When you have a government, and its appointees, so tone deaf, and bent on doing their will, not the peoples,' the system is broken and doomed for failure.

Let government bureaucrats take what you pay for, control it, and enrich themselves in the process, and you'll run off the students pulling the test-scores wagon.

We are at the point in the United States, where anything public, paid for by contributors, is too inferior for us to use.

It's not only schools, look at healthcare and the VA. The more government controls our institutions, the more contaminated, and unusable, they become.

Schools are becoming unacceptable, and the most likely students to make them work, are bolting.

But despite the number of students, education spending just keeps going up.