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Posted on 05/27/2007 6:51:38 AM PDT by wintertime
Edited on 05/27/2007 7:01:12 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Signaling deep discontent and a possible spreading revolt among the city's public school teachers, faculty at two more Los Angeles high schools met this week with a leading charter school operator to discuss alliances aimed at breaking away from the school district.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
An **entire** government school??? !!!
WOW!
This is really a crack in the foundation of the police enforced, compulsory attendance, government monopoly, school citadel.
Apparently, the agenda of the union leaders does not fully coincide with the wishes of the individual teachers.
When Knights of the Middle Ages laid siege to a well defended castle. They used “engines” to dig a very small tunnel under the foundation. Then they build a small fire in the tunnel. The heated stones cracked the foundation of the castle and eventually that part of the castle wall would fall.
All it takes is a few **small** voucher or charter programs to burrow under the government school citadel wall. As long, long waiting lists of children form for these programs, the parents, neighbors, relatives, friends, and others who want freedom will light the fire and the monopoly system **will** fall.
These government teachers meeting with Green Dot are also “engines” digging the small tunnel and lighting the fire under the goverenment school citadel wall.
Wow! Am I hopeful or what?
The worst strategy is a full-out, frontal attack, as is being done in Utah this year, or which failed a few years ago in California
The Founders would be proud. They knew full well that an educated populace was essential for self-government. If the educational institutions fail in their duty to the community, then it behooves the People to devise other, more effective means of educating the next generation of citizens.
Looks like this is happening, and, thankfully, in a peaceful manner.
This thread, too, may have Libertarian interest.
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