Why the United States of America Should Abolish its Public Education System

      Public education in America should be abolished. We should close schools down, convert them to the prisons they were designed to be from the beginning, and use them to detain all teachers and parents convicted of child abuse in the years going forward.
     It's not that I advocate abolition of public schools because I lack constructive suggestions about how to improve schools. I have plenty of ideas. The problem is that improving schools is futile, because the people whom we have put in charge of schools, are extremely defensive, litigious, and disdainful towards people whom they feel are not being sufficiently appreciative of the self-anointed "heroes" of society who are teaching children.

     If abolition of public schools cannot be done, then - at the very least - non-parents should no longer be obligated to pay taxes that fund schools.
     It does not benefit me that the children in my neighborhood are smart but also traumatized by sexual abuse and indoctrination; therefore, the existence of public education does not benefit me (nor children, for that matter) overall. Aside from that, it does not make sense that someone who has decided to opt-out of parenthood, should not be free to similarly opt-out of funding the education of children who are strangers to them. Non-parents need the full right to opt-out of the education and child-raising system, if that is their desire.
     Until compulsory taxation to fund public schools is no more, people who expect non-parents to pay to educate kids, have no right to exclude taxed non-parents from public participation to decide how that money is spent. Moreover, if the states supporting abolishing the federal Department of Education are honest when they demand that education be truly local, then the states have no right to force people from different communities to fund each other, nor to fund a central state department of education. Until there is no longer any state-level entity regulating education, no taxpayer - parent or not - should be limited in their ability to redress school boards for grievances.

     As an alternative to ceasing to tax non-parents to fund schools, I would be willing to accept making public education non-compulsory. But I would prefer that both be done.
     By "making public education non-compulsory" I mean making it voluntary, on the part of the parent(s), whether to send the kids to public school. I would like to see every state add an amendment to its state constitution which would make it illegal for any state, county, or municipal governmental entity to require parents to send kids to school, and which would make it illegal to prohibit parents from home-schooling.

     Some states only allow home-schooling if there is a valid religious exemption which is explicitly stated via scripture. That is an insane regulation because it automatically renders all children of agnostic and atheist parents into wards of the state for 1,200 hours per year, who have no right to stay home and remain with their families. The people who create state statutes forbidding homeschooling without religious justification have no idea what kind of additional problems they could be causing by crafting such irresponsible legislation.
     If it turns out that reform is actually still possible after all, then it is my opinion that schools could (and should) make things a lot safer for children, if they ensured that parent-teacher conferences are attended by an additional person. Specifically, someone who is trained in detecting signs of grooming and abuse; someone like a psychologist, social worker, or a detective with the sex crimes Special Victims Unit.
     Enacting a policy like this would "turn-up the heat" on abusive parents and abusive teachers who may be trying to blame each other - or the kid - for a kid's bad behavior, knowing that the child is acting out because they harmed the kid. With another pair of eyes in the room - focusing on nothing but "Are any of these three people exhibiting signs of having groomed or abused a child, or coached a child to stay silent?" - a teacher or parent who is abusive, will have a tougher time concealing their lies.

     If a bare minimum standard of protecting children - like that - cannot be adopted, then why not consider abolishing public schools altogether?
     Why not turn them into prisons, but just be transparent about it?
     Why teach them if we're just going to fail to protect them? Can't somebody figure out a way to teach children without molesting them?
     It's not like we need public school buildings for teachers to teach students. The lockdowns, during the Covid pandemic era, proved that. Students brought computers home, and did online learning. Hell, we don't even need public school buildings for teachers to spy on children while they're changing clothes. Bringing webcam-equipped laptops into children's bedrooms - and making rules requiring them to keep those laptops turned on during certain times - allowed teachers to watch (and possibly even record) any and all children whom they wanted to see undressing.
     [Articles from the Covid era could not be found; but see these two articles regarding events that occurred in 2009 and 2010:
     https://time.com/7275031/spy-high-true-story-prime-video/
     http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/feb/19/schools-spied-on-students-webcams#:~:text=The%20ruse%20was%20revealed%20when,very%20seriously%2C"%20he%20said.]
     If we don't need the physical buildings, then maybe we don't need the teachers spying on our kids while they change either. Maybe we don't even need the teachers at all.

     In my opinion, public schools have failed, and done so much damage that they deserve to be shut down, or at the very least, completely reformed, and decentralized, and federal Department of Education abolished.
     In mid-2025, a video came out, showing a high schooler - at his graduation ceremony, in full view of students and his family - showing-off the laptop on which he used an A.I. program to help him cheat. High schools and colleges are loaded with kids who think it's not cheating to use A.I. to summarize assignments, so they can avoid reading.

     Schools have become a vehicle to facilitate the trafficking of children. A kid who questions his or gender, can be identified for potential removal from their household if their parents don't affirm their gender. Several states have made it legal to abduct "trans kids" from non-supportive parents, on the grounds that the kid will definitely commit suicide if their uninformed choice isn't affirmed. Washington, California, and Maryland were the first states to do this.

     Cafeterias, rigid schedules with bells, and the design of the schools, are reminiscent of prisons. Not only are we training kids for either a rigid work schedule and cubicles, or else prison; the schools are designed to have long, straight hallways, which make it easier to shoot people (because the design provides little cover, and thus, few hiding places).

     We are releasing these kids into the "care" of a society in which everything is illegal. It's not just public education that's broken, it's all education. Even non-public driving instructors teach teenagers to speed, five to ten miles per hour over the speed limit, knowing it's illegal, knowing that other drivers will be impatient with them if they don't break the law. We are setting these kids up for failure from Day 1.

     Then there's the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. The school mustered no defense, while 400 police officers arrived, some of whom tackled mothers who ran into the school to heroically and successfully rescue their kids from gunfire.

     I recently tried to go to a school board meeting, in Deerfield, about the transgender locker room controversy. I went to the wrong school by accident. A children's music recital was taking place. Who was at the door to greet me? Nobody. Not a security guard. Not a receptionist. Not a teacher. Not a student. Not a parent volunteer. Not a Wal-Mart greeter.

     I walked into the school and started looking around for employees. I found two cafeteria workers who didn't speak English. Then I saw a teacher who did speak English. I asked if there was a school board meeting happening in the building. She stared at me and kept walking.

     That is who is teaching America's kids. And that was who was available in the building, to stop me, if I had been a school shooter, who decided to enter the building.

     Pro- gun control groups say to take away law-abiding people's guns, "even if it will save the life of just one child". So why not abolish public education "even if it will prevent the molestation of 14,000 children per year"?

     Schools care so much about preventing shootings. But they evidently do not care enough about stopping them, to hire armed security guards to patrol the outside of the buildings, monitor entrances, and check doors and windows frequently to make sure that they are in proper working order. Also, they should monitor the outside of restrooms, because that's where the majority of the fights, rapes, drug-taking, smoking, vaping, drinking, and use of piercing guns, takes place in schools. Guards posted just outside bathrooms can listen for problems coming from within, without invading anyone's privacy.

     Schools say they want to stop shootings, and also stop abuse by teachers. Do American public schools stop to notice, for one second, that one hundred twenty-three times as many kids are molested or raped by a student or teacher, for every one child who is shot or killed?

     If schools can't post one security guard outside a building, to stop one kid from being shot or killed each day, then what are the odds that they're going to take any reasonable measure to prevent fourteen thousand kids from being molested or raped per year (a problem that they're comparatively less vocal about)?
     Most teachers do not molest kids. But non-abusive teachers are less aggressive - and less obsessed with acquiring power within the authority and seniority structures of the education system - than the teachers who do molest kids. Thus, the non-abusive teachers are ill-equipped to help weed-out the "bad apples".
     The abusive teachers who do rise to the top of the power structure, are not going to stop abusing kids; not even if evidence were to come out which would show a positive correlation between shooting schools and previous sexual abuse. Is anybody studying that? No. A society that fails to ask that question cannot possibly be maintaining an education system which deserves to continue to exist.

     Regardless of how polite or timely or constructive the proposal, the most aggressive defenders of public schools will always respond to improvement proposals, and concern, with a claim that those who are criticizing the schools want to portray all teachers as abusive.

     I do not want to abolish teachers. I want to abolish compulsory public education, and cease taxing non-parents to pay for public schools. I do not want to be jailed for refusing to send my child to be taught by a complete stranger, who - if they are a child abuser - will take what was just my money, turn around and give it to their teachers' union, who uses that money to hire a lawyer, to defend the accused teacher.

     We are, in effect, paying public employees to rape our kids.

     I am being proactive about this because I know that something horrible will happen - in the next few years - in a public school, or in all public schools. I don't know what that event will be; maybe it will just be another 14,000 molestations and another 100 shootings per year, maybe it will be a new problem. Either way, I want to be the person who saw the problem early, and called it for what it was. Whatever the problem will be, abolishing public schools now, would prevent it.

     We are separating men and women and children from each other, like cattle do when they enter farms with slaughterhouses on premises, and like Jewish families were separated upon entrance to the concentration camps. The purpose of this is to make the children and women vulnerable to attacks, now that their men - typically the strongest member of the family - are out of the way. Social Security Title IV-D (child support) facilitates and accelerates this process, through the taking of children from non-abusive parents by family courts; this effectively bribes women to divorce men for no reason.

     Hitler and Lenin both explained that public schools are the essential condition for slavery and indoctrination. The amount of damage - and loss of productivity and creativity - which schools can cause kids, within just a few years, is impossible to estimate.

     Small children are growing up unable to communicate properly, because the schools enforced the masks mandates, and kids had to listen to words without seeing what adults' mouths looked like when they formed those sounds. Moreover, teenagers are graduating unable to read.

     Four-year high schools are attended not only by students age 14 to 18, but also by 19-year-old students whom have been held-back, some of whom are pregnant and starting families. What is the reward for a smart 7th grader who "gets to" skip ahead a year? Becoming a freshman in a high school where grown adults and kids age 13 and 14 are in the same building. That is a recipe for fights, teen pregnancy, immorality, drug taking, and disaster.
     The damage has already been done; and it will take a long period of healing before public schools can ever be reconstituted in a way that helps kids thrive and does not traumatize them.

     To address the problem of older kids hurting younger kids, I have suggested splitting high school campuses in two; separating kids over the age of sixteen, from kids under sixteen. I believe this would help reduce the rate at which kids under sixteen, suffer sexual and physical violence at the hands of older kids (as well as young adults).

     The trouble, however, is that I am convinced that the education establishment (i.e., school boards, administrators, teachers, and politicians who favor public education) and most parents - are too pompous, busy, unbothered, and full of themselves, to entertain, for one second, the possibility that they are not caring for their children's well-being enough.
     Bad parents reason: "I'm all my kid has", and then dumps that kid on a stranger, and makes a daily ritual of it. This is tyranny, it is routine child abandonment, and it is wrong. And nobody wants to take it seriously enough to stop it, because the government has rigged things such that the only way to rescue a child from an abusive situation is to let the agents of the corrupt state intervene (subjecting everyone involved to a heightened risk of harm).

     That's why I believe that advocating for reform - rather than abolition - will fall upon deaf ears. So much so, that advocating making education voluntary, and making the funding of education voluntary, will be treated as advocating abolition, even though it is not.

     That's why I have no choice but to frame my support of abolishing public schools in an unorthodox and yet-unheard manner: "I will not produce any new child slaves, to sacrifice to a system which intends to force me to surrender my child to a series of complete strangers, for seven hours a day, half of the days of the year, knowing that my child may eventually be abused, and my money used to hire a lawyer to help keep the person who did it out of jail, and knowing that I may be legally prohibited from describing the abuse that occurred."

     I have no choice but to proceed as if my future child will eventually be abused. Once warned that 14,000 kids are molested in schools per year, nobody has the right to ignore the statistics on this. It would be detrimental to our safety and survival, to ignore obvious patterns like that.

     I don't care that "only" about 0.4 percent of U.S. public school children get sexually abused while in school. Sending my kid to school does not lower other kids' risk of getting abused; it simply adds to the pool of kids who will be available to be abused. I am not interested in playing Russian roulette with my future child's innocence or safety.

     The majority of teachers do not abuse kids, but this fact does not mean that the minority of teachers who do - and the minority of kids who are abused - should be ignored. To regard these kids' experiences as "negligible" would be to commit the fallacy of an "appeal to the majority". It is also to ignore the suicides of kids who were molested, whose families never found out that abuse was the cause of their suicide. To ignore these kids is to commit the fallacy of "survivorship bias".

     Additionally, abolishing public schools does not mean that all private schools should be supported. It simply means that all education should be consensual. The United Nations's Universal Declaration of Human Rights promises the children of every country the right to "compulsory education". But how can compulsion be a right? What does it mean; to say that we have a right to be compelled to be educated? It just means that our government has the authority to force us to consume and repeat propaganda against our will. Being subjected to compulsion - i.e., involuntary servitude - is not a right; it is legalized slavery.

     I do not support the public funding of private schools; this would be inappropriate expenditure of public funds, and it would render private schools no longer private. I do not support privatization if that word means the government-directed sale of public assets to private entities; but rather, I support something called "radical privatization", wherein the government gets out of the business or industry entirely.

     The U.S. government is the biggest purveyor of lies on the face of the planet; it should not be in the business of educating anyone; not adults, not children.

     The fact that the above argument would not be enough to convince most people that schools need to be abolished if they are not immediately drastically reformed, should show you how much our society has made criticism of people who claim to protect kids, off-limits; not only teachers, but administrators, parents, and the politicians and doctors who facilitate the butchery and kidnapping of kids who have been groomed by teachers to discuss their feelings about sex openly to the point where they think it is normal.

     Public employees are trying to take America's children as sex slaves and mind-controlled drones who repeat Western imperialist propaganda. Even if many schools have stopped teaching racism and imperialism, they have just replaced that indoctrination with gender lies and pathological fear of germs.
     In the 2018 decision in Janus v. A.F.S.C.M.E., the U.S. Supreme Court stopped teachers' unions (and other public employee unions) from collecting compulsory dues from their co-workers. Now it's time to make them earn n honest living, without effectively stealing money from the public (by conscripting a violent government to coercively extract taxes from non-parents like me).

     We have a right to stop our assets from being handed-over to line the pockets of lawyers who make a living defending child molesters (people like my father, Richard Kopsick; and his friend Steve McCollum, who defended at least two teachers accused of sex crimes against minors).

     One man, at a mid-2025 meeting of the board of education that governs Shepard Middle School in Deerfield, Illinois, said that the school should sue people who claimed that teachers made a girl undress in front of a trans-identifying male. If this man got his way, then hypothetically, anyone concerned about that, who failed to correctly guess the exact details of how the teachers and administrators exposed those girls, could potentially be sued for libel or defamation. These people are greedy, overly litigious enablers of indecency, and their interests align with the interests of the school officials who exposed those girls.

     But things like this are allowed to happen; because we have built a whole society of people who know that they will continue to receive goodies from government as long as they shut up about rape, molestation, and forcing girls to undress in front of boys while their mothers are placed under gag orders.

     I acknowledge that the severity of child abuse in schools varies from state to state; and Illinois, being one of the most populous and wealthiest and pro-big-government states, probably suffers more than other states. For example, Illinois is the home of Abbott Laboratories, which produces the drug Lupron; and Governor J.B. Pritzker recently banned the banning of books (thus hindering public school libraries from excluding books depicting sexual violence against minors). But I still say all of this, and I do it in order to warn people in other states against giving public schools and teachers' unions too much power and money. More states will suffer the problems I have described, if public schools are not abolished.

     A mother in Arizona told her school board that her son was being taught never to say "no" to any person of authority; cautioning that this could easily cause a child to refrain from resisting a kidnapper. Now we have racist volunteers trying to arrest immigrants, refusing to identify themselves, putting people into unmarked vans, entering schools...

     In light of the re-elected president's immigration policy, the Department of Homeland Security and I.C.E. are now claiming the right to enter premises without warrants nor consent; thus, the ability of public schools to keep I.C.E. agents out, is limited. So - if we are going to fail to prevent illegal arrests by secret police and volunteer mercenaries who refuse to identify themselves, then what was the point of teaching kids about the Holocaust, and caution them against adopting the attitudes that facilitated mass submission to the Nazis?

     This is the society we are raising children to think is normal. Public education has failed. With the Covid and gender propagandization phases now complete, soon the parallels with Nazi indoctrination policy will be impossible to ignore.

     Forcibly removing children from the custody of one group, and transferring them to another group, is one of the components of the internationally recognized definition of genocide. We must oppose compulsory public education; to make it more difficult to commit genocide (by eliminating a common opportunity to do so).

     Also - not that anyone cares - Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E.) and the federal Department of Education were never constitutional to begin with.

     Through the Constitution, the people grant the federal government the right to "establish an uniform rule of naturalization" of immigrants. It's possible that it would be completely legal for the federal Congress to create the uniform rule, while the states were to apply the rule that Congress created.
     I.C.E. did not exist for the first two hundred years of the country's history, that's how we know that it doesn't need to exist. I.C.E. was only created after the George W. Bush Administration committed an obviously unconstitutional, unpredecented, sweeping reorganization of the executive branch, and has resulted in the existence of eighteen federal-level intelligence apparati (which was not just one of President Trump's lies).
     All other issues pertaining to immigrants could thus easily be handled by the states and/or the people. These include enforcement, settlement, health, welfare, education, driver licensing; anything aside from who makes the uniform rule of naturalizing them, and the authority of the federal government to ensure that states are uniformly enforcing that rule.

     Similarly, the federal authority to regulate education is also invalid. The Department of Education began as part of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; and the Constitution's General Welfare Clause (which was used to excuse its creation) should never have been construed to grant the authority to regulate education, to the federal government, because education is not mentioned in the Constitution at all. In fact, the words "school", "schools", "schooling", "educate", and "education" do not appear in that document even once.
     To give the federal government the authority to regulate education, would have first required taking the authority to regulate education, from the states and the people. That never happened. That's why the federal Department of Education is unconstitutional. Supreme Court justice John Marshall once wrote that "all laws repugnant to the constitution are null and void".
     These facts should not be lost on us. We should not be forced to choose sides, regarding the perceived battle between the unconstitutional Department of Education and the unconstitutional agency I.C.E.. We have the right to - and should be free to - ignore and resist all federal and federally-funded efforts to regulate education, and to regulate immigration any more than the Constitution explicitly requires.
     We do not have a duty to cooperate with plainclothes kidnappers who refuse to identify themselves, and we do not have a duty to surrender our children to teachers who legally get to move children around for seven hours a day while their parents don't know exactly where they are. We have a right to stop our education and immigration systems from being turned into legalized kidnapping and human-trapping operations.

     One in 250 kids sent to public schools being molested is a travesty. That's one kid, out of every ten classrooms of twenty-five. In a high school with a thousand students, approximately four kids will statistically be abused each year.
     But, for the people who worship only the will of the majority, the abused kids are negligible. The trouble is that anything can become "negligible", if you are heartless enough to ignore it. But to ignore it is simply neglect.

     The majority of teachers doesn't abuse kids, and the majority of public school students don't get sexually abused. That's why the minority of kids who are abused by teachers will never matter to the people running the schools.
     And we, the public, are not only embracing this way of thinking, but also failing to equip students with any means to against it. We are leading them to assume that suppressing their own individual rights to resist compulsion and abuse, serves the common good.

     That's why it's time to admit that public education has failed.

     While closing public schools will drastically reduce the rate at which teachers molest students, it will increase the rate at which family members molest kids (because kids will be in the home instead of at school). This is its own problem, aside from the problem of abuse at school.

     Reducing abuse by parents, requires protecting children from their parents, and refraining from interfering with their right to fight back against parents who are hitting them or abusing them. It requires informing parents that they do not have an unequivocal right to "take care" of their kids, in the Mafia sense of the phrase "take care"; because the 2000 Supreme Court case of Troxel v. U.S. affirmed that the privilege of caring for children is contingent upon refraining from abusing the child. Thus, the right to give birth to children is universal, but the right to keep kids and raise them unquestioned is not unconditional.

     Decreasing child abuse by family members and acquaintances of children (and other non-teachers) will also require large numbers of people to become familiar with the signs of grooming. Unfortunately, many Americans have become desensitized to detecting those signs. We have literally been groomed into not noticing grooming.
     Adults should not get a free pass to be alone with kids, call them special and mature, give them gifts and hugs, talk about their private feelings, etc.; but the transgender movement has made this normal, so sexual abuse by teachers goes largely undetected when the kid is gender-questioning. But it's not just the transgender movement which has enabled this grooming; the vast majority of the teachers involved in the "making up a unique handshake for each student" trend are not transgender. Is it too much to ask, that teachers refrain from touching their minor students?
     Any attempt to improve the system will only make its many vast flaws easier to tolerate. Every improvement carries with it the possibility that it will backfire. This goes back to what I said about the damage already being done.

     Social media is also rife with evidence of parents objectifying their children for attention and even money. Yet the authorities do almost nothing about it, except in the cases of the most egregious offenses. To be honest, schools helped create a world in which children must be constantly entertained, or else on-camera entertaining others, in order to get attention, wealth, and fame later on. My own high school, Lake Forest High School, allowed students to create a music video in which they rapped, danced, and threw money into the air.

     Nobody prevented this, nobody but me criticized it, and nobody cares, because children don't have money, can't vote, and have no rights, only the privileges that their parents deign to give to them.

     An adult transvestite gave a 14-year-old girl a lap dance, at a school in North Carolina, at a state-sanctioned event. Adults and children watched; adults and children cheered. This is what public education wants children to think is normal and fun and exciting.
     In Loudoun County, Virginia, a boy wore a dress, claimed to be transgender, entered a girls' restroom, raped a girl, got expelled, and went to another school where he went into another girls' restroom and raped another girl. The first school even attempted to cover-up and deny the fact that the boy claimed he was transgender and wore a dress in order to help carry-out his first crime.
     But as long as putting girls with trans boys in restrooms and locker rooms "is the policy", then taking any sort of preventive measure likely to proactively protect kids from rape and humiliation, is simply illegal, and thus, children's right to defend themselves is ignored and nullified.
     And yet, we accept it. Why? Because we go to jail if we want to do anything more to stop it, other than just complain about it. Because - like Adolf Eichmann - these educators and school administrators are just being loyal to their country, and because they are obeying the rules for war. The law is lowering our standards of justice.

     What we really need - to combat sex crimes against children and women and other vulnerable people - is a "Congress of Organizations Battling Rape, Abuse, and Alienation" (C.O.B.R.A.A.).
     All the elements in our society, which are trying to fight these problems, need to come together, to educate people, and compare notes, about how to detect and report grooming; and to identify corrupt public employees and people in the legal professions who may have an incentive to legally traffic children - and/or an edge when it comes to abusing them with impunity.
     Communities should form anti-abuse groups, which would partner with various types of child advocacy groups, to train children and parents to become familiar with the faces of outed predators living among them, and (if necessary) coordinate plans to march on police stations and courthouses which are sheltering people in the legal professions who refuse to charge and prosecute people accused of sex crimes against minors.
     Such an organization should consist of rape crisis support organizations, groups which provide physical protection to survivors and witnesses who testify against abusers, people exposing abuse by clergy members, agencies fighting unfair takings of child custody, social workers who can educate people to detect signs of grooming, groups wishing to reduce prostitution and shelter abused sex workers, women's and children's self-defense course instructors, and other agencies aiming to protect the vulnerable from sex crimes and the alienation of non-abusive parents from their children.

     Even if public schools cannot be abolished any time soon, then it is at least clear that they plan to do nothing about abused kids, except continue to abandon them; and in stranger, more creative, more devious, more bizarre new ways every year.
     If compulsory education cannot be completely abolished, then the only course which should be compulsory, upon minors, should be physical defense. Every child should be armed with knowledge about how consent works, and about how to evade kidnappers and report attempted grooming.

     We do not owe these people access to our children. We owe them nothing but ankle bracelets and fire. Slavery must end before it affects the next generation.

Written on July 2nd and 3rd, 2025.

Published on July 3rd, 2025.