There's a little brouhaha happening in Charleston, South Carolina over private education and school choice. A proposed bill would offer tuition tax credits to people who choose to send their children to private schools. The bill would let the state to use tax dollars to allow students to transfer from failing government schools to private schools or better government schools. This infuriates a lot of lawmakers ..... they can't get a hold of your children quite as easily if they don't submit to their government education! Besides .. these political hacks have teacher's unions to please.

But unfortunately it has become a racial issue. Black leaders are denouncing the bill. What a surprise. As an alternative they are supporting legislation that would increase choices within the government school system. A former Teacher of the Year from South Carolina says, "As an African-American and an educator, I'm shocked and appalled that this is the position that someone who is supportive of our community would propose ... It's bad legislation." And that's about as specific as the opposition gets, folks.

So many of the problems we're facing today in this country can be traced back to our government education system. You want change? When the majority of American parents understand that our government school system was designed to do little more than produce good workers and government subjects, then we'll get change.