This is why I am on Free Republic every day (pleading, jumping up and down, and yelling,) with fellow conservatives. WE MUST SHUT DOWN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS!! WE MUST EDUCATE NATION'S CHILDREN INTO PRIVATE CONSERVATIVE EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS.
some very determined Communists to destabilize our Country, a task they have been working at non-stop since somewhere in the 1940's when they infiltrated the F.D. Roosevelt Administration, our education system, and even our religious institutions.
Since government schools are, by definition, socialist-funded, compulsory, and godless it wasn't hard for the Marxists to take them over. Gee! Americans themselves had built the socialist, godless, and compulsory foundation for them!
Modern government schools have been socialist-funded, and compulsory since they opened in the mid-1800s to mid-1900s. At first the curriculum offered a generic and lukewarm Protestantism. By my grandmother's day ( born 1894) the curriculum was essentially godless although mitigated somewhat by having basically Christian teachers.
So?...What happens when kids attend schools that are socialist, godless, compulsory, and government owned and run? Answer: The children think that socialism, godlessness, government compulsion, and government ownership of services is NORMAL! That we now have a government owned car company, mortgage services, school loans, and **compulsory** government retirement, Obamacare is INEVITABLE! Soon it will be government owed, run, and compulsory energy and even food.
I am exasperated with conservatives. You are completely correct with MUST MUST MUST begin the process of education, not only adults but the children as well.
By the way, that idiot teacher who thinks she should be paid by the median income of the area was INEVITABLE! Government schools and later her college indoctrinated her into believing this idiocy.
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I very much agree with the sentiment, but I can't see how this can be done?
School vouchers would be one helpful solution, we need to push harder for that. When parents can move their kids out of the socialist indoctrination camps we call schools today, and put them in private schools, this would be a very helpful step in the right direction, but not a complete solution.
What about all the kids left behind because their parents don't care?
Seems to me the best solution is to ween our State governments off of all Federal tax dollars. This "wealth distribution" plan is socialist at the core and gives Democrat Socialists unconstitutional powers by proxy.
If this means setting up tolls on all major highways, and perhaps requiring parents to pay some of the education cost of their children, sobeit.
If they complain, tell them Ms. Single-Liberated-Woman who is their teacher says she requires $80k per year income for nine months work so, sorry, but we are going to have to charge you something. /sarcasm
By rejecting Federal dollars, we can reject unconstitutional influence from DC and the people can regain control of their States including the school system.