Newslog #4

Tea Party Candidate: Abolish All Public Schools

http://www.aolnews.com/surge-desk-elections/article/tea-party-candidate-david-harmer-wants-to-abolish-public-schools/19674478?icid=main%7Cmain%7Cdl1%7Csec3_lnk3%7C177748

David Harmer is a member of the Tea Party and a Republican candidate from California's 11th District who is running as a Republic for the House of Representatives. He believes that all public schools in the United States should be closed and that the education system should return to the way it was in 1825. In that time period, almost all schools were private and not run by the government. However, the US Department of Commerce and the Census Bureau proved that throughout the past few decades, more people have been becoming literate. This is due to the increase of public education in the United States.

Closing all public schools is a one-way ticket for unequal opportunities. At the moment, children who do not have a lot of money are allowed to attend public school and receive the same type of education as those who have money. If private schools were the only schools available for students, then many poor families would have a difficult time because private school tuition costs just as much as a college tuition.