Public Education’s
Model for a Whiny, Underachieving America
Tired of witnessing
abject failure and scores of wasted human potential in the
classroom? Our country is afraid to examine the unvarnished
truths as to why our kids are failing; why we’re failing as a
nation. Someone has to stand up and change the context of the
debate, no matter who might be offended.
Public schools are
compromising the lives of millions of children. And one man is
doing something about it.
If we were solvent
today, given public education’s PC, dumb-down entitlement
sanctuary, sooner or later we’d be right back at current status.
In Crippled by Compassion, Robert Lutz exposes the
fallacies of framing reform around the perpetual extortion of
the American people on behalf of the children. The true
beneficiaries of redistributive polices are a subset of public
sector employees, as evidenced by the job banks of public school
campuses and districts. Lutz scoffs at the notion that
redirecting tax dollars to the classroom would bear significant
improvement, given the vacancy of discipline and educational
fundamentals.
A burgeoning nanny
state, feasting on languishing human capital, Lutz claims our
youth provide sustenance for big government and unions. A normal
human emotion gone awry, the deceitful packaging of compassion
has undermined America’s present value. Lutz’s anecdotes
littered throughout Crippled by Compassion lend
themselves not only to reviving the American public school
system but to a laissez faire renaissance, as he parallels the
ineffectiveness of the powerless teacher and local government,
each subject to overreaching rule.
Shockingly informative,
witty and though somewhat tragic in its assessment of where we
could be headed as a nation, Crippled by Compassion is as
dramatic and entertaining as non-fiction gets.
