And schools have fallen off the radar.
(Sorry)
http://reformed-theology.org/ice/books/conspiracy/html/1.htm
“If we fail to solve THIS problem, the rest is just tinkering at the edges.”
Sort of, but do you really think private education is run by conservatives?
And the majority of “our leaders” certainly don’t go to state schools.
Right now, we're in a "throw the bums out" mode every few years thinking politics are going to save us, when the root of our problems are the fundamentals.
Education, as you point out, is one. You also touch devolution of the legal system, clergy etc. The family is breaking down, the financial system, free markets, our collective moral ethos (mainly religion/Christianity), state and individual rights, property rights manufacturing and culling natural resources.
We're killing our offspring wholesale, while men are attempting to mimic reproduction with each others bungholes. Society and our collective media cheers it all on.
All of the traditions and institutions that made us great and prosperous have become horribly mutated.
Elections aren't going to solve it. Not sure if there is a solution at this point. The downward spiral might be irreversible.
I recently met a high school valedictorian who actively campaigned for Obama. :(
Public school is child abuse.
Good grief! This kind of worthless "hindsight" article is a waste of time!
If written in 1969, or so, when the black-robed clerics proclaimed everyone's offspring to be the government's children it could have been considered significant.
Now is too late. There is zero possibility, short of a violent uprising, of reestablishing a "public" school system. All this "crybaby" stuff is a waste of bandwidth.
We have three generations of marxist serfs managing, training/brainwashing, and birthing mindless serfs.
It is the people my age and older who bear the principle responsibility for letting this happen. It could have been stopped in the 60's, but we simply sat around and bitched...happily complacent that we had survived WWII and the KW.
Now there isn't anyone under the age of 60-65 that has more than the vaguest idea what the individual liberties guaranteed under the former Republic were like even in the 50's. We needed a "Tea Party" in 1965...Now it is too late.
Fortunately, for our rulers, those of us who should have been willing to die to save the remains of the Republic are rapidly disappearing naturally into the ground. Those of us who remain will experience the "political art" of deathcare at an accelerated pace. In 10-15 years the word "freedom" and the phrases "individual liberty" and "individual responsibility" will have been completely purged from the lexicon...
There’s a reason free government schools are one of Marx’s 10 Commie manifesto planks.
Education of any type (public, private or homeschool) is by its very nature skewed toward the worldview of the person educating and the authors of the curriculum.
The key is to choose which philosophy you want your children learning. The biggest problem we have is that parents are not actively involved in that choosing.
Because of the “brainwashing” that is taking place, public schools should be banned. It should not be the business of our government to be indoctrinating children into any specific ideology.
This will really get you. I teach “at risk” teenage boys. Last week none of them could name one state in this country besides the one they live in. All of them attended public schools before getting removed or kicked out .
However, I did home educate my children throughout til graduation.