I am a former public school teacher, Russophile, gun-nut, Capitalist,and a liberty/personal responsibility lover. I homeschool my 7 year old son; I also write about government education.

"In the absence of intellectual opposition, the rebels' notions will gradually come to be absorbed into the culture. The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted by degrees, by precendent, by implication, by erosion, by default, by dint of constant pressure on one side and constant retreat on the other - until the day when they are suddenly declared to be the country's official ideology. That is the way welfare statism came to be accepted in this country."
Ayn Rand