אבי אהרן

The mission of the education-inspiring Israeli is threefold: forgetting everything he was taught in the government mandatory education system, pay for the tuition on top of the taxes paid for funding – among other things – a huge government system and put whatever left on the not too many private schools and universities available in Israel.
The common objection of the government mandated education system is that the government is not permitted to tell someone how to educate their kids, nor to take their money for this purpose (I apologize for putting ‘government’ and “purpose’ in the same sentence).
This objection is thorough and complete. It calls not for the privatization of the government education system, but for its abolition.
Privatization won’t benefit me. I don’t want to be handed with the school that I am currently paying for. I don’t want to be forced to make education my business, as I would like to put my efforts on my kid, not on yours.
Now, I know that not all Israeli schools are equally bad. One of the ways to ensure proper education for your kids is to move to a rural town that is already known for its good schools. Rural towns are relatively small, so the parents can easily get a hold on what is going on in schools. I have to say that I am very pleased with the kindergarten Amir attends to. Nevertheless, I was forced to send him there and I wish this was not the case.
The costs of education, we are told, are the same with private education as well as the government-owned (NIS800-1000 for half-day, NIS2000 and up for a full day). The budget of the ministry of education is NIS-Billion-25, which is divided onto 2.5 million kids, hence NIS10K per kid per years. This money is taken from my income tax, on top of the direct payment made to the kindergarten. Hence, I pay twice the cost for my kid’s tuition.
The objectivist abolition of government education system will reduce my costs by half. I don’t even mention the years that I did pay taxes but had no kids.
The main problem with government-mandated education is not the money I spend, though. The bigger problem is that the system itself is of a very low quality. It teaches very little and educate for brutality and violent behavior. The schools are too big, with too little personnel. The studies are dull and the kids, being kids, are turning the boredom into playful, however purposeless behavior. The school finds itself responding to insubordination and violence. In the past decades – at least ever since I went to school – the education system has monotonously deteriorated.
If you want your kid to be able to study computer science, you have to teach him all the math he needs by yourself. This is an easy task, though; as it is not that difficult to surpass the math level being taught at school.
So your kid might evade the violence and purposeless of school life. What about the others? What about the other kids that don’t have parents such as yourself?
The answer, I’m afraid, is that they are doomed. The are doomed to violent, purposeless life. These are the kids that took a rifle and shot at a school bus in Rosh Haayin earlier this year (and killed two kids). These are the thousands of kids that are growing to be adults that don’t make a living without the help of the state. They are doomed to live on welfare and breed the next generation of voters that favor big government. Ooops, maybe I am onto something here.
The government education system has to be abolished altogether. This system’s budget has to return to the taxpayer. Let us chose how to educate our kids and fund this education on our own.