This press message was released by the Government of the Commonwealth of Rutania.
To the United Nations of Terra:
This comprehensive treaty stipulates that in terms of education policy, we want the good people of this great planet to be the SMARTEST, BRIGHTEST, and most INNOVATIVE citizens in the entire Terran universe. On the planet Earth, the United States might be the greatest political democracy, but the people are the DUMBEST when compared to the Chinese and Japanese. This is so b/c Oriental nations on that planet invest heavily in Education resources as a Fundamental Right.
Therefore, this legislation revolutionarily renovates the FAILED public school system for an efficent Free-Market based approach that involves COMPETITION. It is only with competition that the price of education will fall while the QUALITY rises:
(1) Education is declared a UNIVERSAL RIGHT thereby is compulsory, but HOME SCHOOLING is permitted.
(2) We suspend the management of Pre-schools to Local Governments; The Federal Gov't shouldn't be bogged down babysitting toddlers;
(3) (a) Each Nation nationalizes all PUBLIC schools--[not private b/c we're not Soviet Communists]--under their Dept. of Education;
(b) Next, once the Federal Government has control and ownership of these Public Schools, this Treaty stipulates that all of those schools--[the land, property, resources]--will be transferred directly to all of the Public School Teachers' Union collectively so that they can have PRIVATE OWNERSHIP & CONTROL of the Land, Property, and Resources of the schools, thus managing them as their own private corporation paying corporate tax, income tax, etc. while working for a PROFIT DIVIDEND rather than a miniscule ("slave") wage;
(c) Finally, the Federal Gov't fully (100%) subsidizes the cost of private Elementary & Secondary School tuition for the citizentry;
(d) cf. http://www.nycfamilies.org
The actual treaty can be reviewed at http://80.237.164.51/particracy/main/viewtreaty.php?treatyid=775 . Thank you for your full support.
Cordially,
Christian E. Savage, President & Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Rutania
Signed,
the Government of the Commonwealth of Rutania