September 1, 2006 3:37PM 

# Dumb and Dumberer? 

By [Andrew J. Coulson](https://www.cato.org/people/andrew-coulson) 

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Tonight, ABC will rerun its *20/20* special, “[Stupid in America](http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Stossel/story?id=1500338),” which exposes our monopoly school system for what it is: a remarkably dumb — and harmful — idea.

Central planning has been thoroughly discredited in every other field of human exchange over the past half-century. But, for some reason, we still cling to our public school politburos.

Tonight, you can see John Stossel summarizing some of the human and financial costs of our dumbitude.

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[Education](https://www.cato.org/education), [Government and Politics](https://www.cato.org/government-politics), [Center for Educational Freedom](https://www.cato.org/center-educational-freedom) 

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