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To: wintertime

When and how and why did Americans allow the government to do government schools? And even now many Americans think it is great to have government schools. I ‘ve had debates with idiots that have attacked me verbally for daring to talk against the government schools.

I’d like to know the history of government schools. this was one of the seeds of socialism in the U.S. imo


2 posted on 01/05/2013 6:06:40 AM PST by Democrat_media (media makes mass shooters household names to create more & take our guns)
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To: Democrat_media
John Gatto is a good place to start.

There are several Youtube videos of him.

Modern government schooling is considered to have its origins in the the compulsory schooling laws of the mid-1800s.

My great grandparents ( born 1860s), grandparents ( born early 1890s), and parents ( born 1913) would be shaking their heads in utter disbelief that a judge would sentence an EIGHTEEN year old to prison for refusing to go to school. Geeze! My aunts and uncles only went to school until they were 14.

6 posted on 01/05/2013 6:17:39 AM PST by wintertime
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To: Democrat_media

This country was put through a cultural and ideological meat grinder called the 60s. We are now feeling the repercussions of what came out the other end.


7 posted on 01/05/2013 6:17:58 AM PST by gimme1ibertee (When injustice becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.)
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To: Democrat_media

It only took one to three generations of socialist-funded, single-payer, and compulsory schooling to give the nation Franklin D. Roosevelt and his compulsory, single-payer, and socialist programs.

Children who attend socialist funded, and state compelled schools are at risk of learning to be comfortable with socialist, single-payer, and compulsory programs.


9 posted on 01/05/2013 6:21:37 AM PST by wintertime
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Dear Democrat_media,

“Government schools” in Maryland began during the colonial era, when in 1723, the general assembly instructed the then-extant 12 counties to set up and operate “free schools.”

Anne Arundel County (the county in which the capital, Annapolis, is located) had its free school in operation no later than 1746.

The original school building still stands, located in a neighborhood of Davidsonville, MD.


sitetest

10 posted on 01/05/2013 6:21:54 AM PST by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: Democrat_media
--- I’d like to know the history of government schools. ----

Pour yourself a good stiff drink and read this book for free on line: The Underground History of American Education

It's a real eye-opener.

113 posted on 01/06/2013 7:21:10 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas
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