Albert Shanker, former president of the American Federation of Teachers, said this:
It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It's no surprise that our school system doesn't improve: it more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy.
I don't intend to surrender at all. I simply will not save or promote an institution that is fundamentally wrong and which should not exist. Government education was never good it was only less bad.
Fine, I and others here certainly sympathize with that thought; however; my point was that you were inaccurate in condemning the school system prior to 1960, which is what the cartoon cited, as being as bad as it is now. It did not started out as a Marxist wasteland. Thomas Jefferson was the first superintendent of schools in the U.S. They were meant to help children learn our freedoms, religious heritage, our reasons for breaking away from Europe to gain specific freedoms, our Constitutional history and economic system.