From the Hitler Youth to the NEA it has always been about the minds of the children. After our experience with our first child in the public schools we sent our second to private school and then home schooled him from 4th grade on. The first child went to one of the best public school systems in the country, Fairfax County in Virginia. Our home schooler got a much better education.
What to me is so amazing is that conservatives have not awakened to this reality sooner!
Actually, to be exact, controlling the childrens' minds is part of the standard communist playbook, also. Yup, that's just what they did in Russia and Eastern Europe.
Religion, for example. The Commies didn't force the adults and nice old grannies in black to stop believing. They just controlled the message from the pulpit and told the kiddies (conspiratorially, in a whisper, AT SCHOOL) that their parents and grandparents had lots of old-fashioned little customs and that included "worshiping God" on Sundays and singing lots of silly hymns. Even the Commies realized that they older generation had to die off.
Sound familiar? What do you think the public schools have been trying to do since the 1960s, when they took God out of schools? They've been working to the standard-issue leftist playbook. And using the American Constitution on their own behalf ("separation of church and state," which isn't even in the Constitution).