I don’t know why anyone would allow their child to go to “government school” at age 4 when it is still optional. You can readily see that the system wants your child to think and act in a specific way even if that’s counter to your own belief system. I pitty the children. The parent should have known better. That moron “actor” who played Meathead on All in the Family (Rob Reiner) tried to put an initiative on the ballot here in California a couple of years ago that would have made it mandatory for 4 year olds to go to the government schools.
——That moron “actor” who played Meathead on All in the Family (Rob Reiner) tried to put an initiative on the ballot here in California a couple of years ago that would have made it mandatory for 4 year olds to go to the government schools.-——
Having been very active in the school choice movement, and knowing many conservative educational experts, I can tell you that their goal is birth through college. You may see it in your lifetime. And when it’s in place, it will become conventional wisdom.
If parents haven’t rebelled yet, they never will.
When compulsory attendance laws were first instituted in Massachusetts around 1865, children living in Barnstable County were marched into school at gunpoint, over parental opposition.
The real history of American schooling is very interesting. I highly recommend John Gatto’s Underground History of American Education. It’s available to read on-line for free.
One more fun fact. Horace Mann was a phrenologist. And he lied to the Boston school board when he claimed that he had seen a Prussian school in operation. (American schools were based on the socialistic Prussian model.)
Once you know the overarching goal, their incrementalist approach becomes clear.