More on Right to Learn

For the first time in many past presidential election cycles, I heard candidates talking about the passage and enforcement of right to work laws.

Granted, employees should have the opportunity to work wherever they please, regardless of the political classes or assemblies that take root on the job site. The advocacy of pro-business measures is a welcome trend in this anti-business climate, in which the current Vanity-in-Chief Barack Obama has shoved onerous regulations and health care mandates on entrepreneurs already laboring under a weak and anemic economy.

Yet in addition to Right to Work Laws, why not propose Right to Learn legislation, like a voucher system, which would permit families and their children to enroll in the school of their choice, as opposed to settling for whatever the state has set up down the street?

Instead of public schools receiving government largesse without any accountability on how the money is spent, why not let the tax dollars follow the student? That way, per pupil spending would be invested in those school sites that better manage their money.

Students who have the Right to Learn in the community school of their choice stand a better change of being employed in the future, and being employed in the work of their choice.

Right to Learn would assist Right to Work -- what better campaign slogan than that for the 2012 GOP?