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public school is what it is because American citizens let it become what it is. And they can make it what they think it should be, one district at a time, I would think. It's gonna take a long time, it was neglected by them for over a generation, but it can straightened out.

Public education was founded on good principles. It was hijacked, like the democratic party, like the media, civil service, like, perhaps, the CIA -- hijacked by the left.

So, do we stand around and let them take it?

The public schools were a reaction to Irish Catholic immigration in the 1830s,40s, and 50s. Initially, they were explicitly intended as means of coercively "Protestantizing" Catholic children. That is how the Unitarians sold the system to a country that was already the most literate on earth.

The Unitarians' own motivation was to use the system to make Unitarianism the defacto established religion of the US. This would be accomplished largely through their control of the "teachers' seminaries" (later called normal schools, and today "schools of education"). If they could control the training of the teachers and the teachers' worldview, the Unitarians knew that local control over other things didn't matter all that much.

The Catholics resisted the encroachments of the "common school system" (what today's government schools were called then), which is why a Catholic school system developed.

As noted, the "public schools" were created out of, and spread initially largely because of, anti-Catholic sentiment, which historically made them a darling of both the liberals and the Ku Klux Klan (if you wanted to the join the Klan in the 20th century you had to, among other things, pledge support for "free" public schools and the "sacred" principle of separation of church and state). Later in the 20th century the government schools passed completely into the hands of the secular/progressive left and most recently they have been captured by hardcore cultural Marxists.

The government schools can't be reformed any more than the Soviet collective agricultural system could have been reformed. The model is the mistake.

Today the government's schools are destroying our children, families, and culture. The entire system needs to die. Tomorrow wouldn't be too soon. Perhaps the most patriotic act a parent can take today is to refuse to offer up his children as a living sacrifice to the Moloch of government schools.