I can barely get past the first sentence.
GOVERNMENT EDUCATION HAS ****ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAY ALWAYS*** BEEN DOMINATED BY LIBERALISM!!!!!!!!!!
The people who pushed it on us in the mid-1800s were Utopian Progressives! Utopian progressives have ALWAYS been those directing teacher education and curriculum. Geeze! did this author think Dewey was hatched in 1900s????
From the very first DAY that taxpayer funded and compulsory government schools opened they were a socialist program!!! Simply by attending children in the mid-1800s and early 1900s learned that government had the power to take money from their neighbor to pay for a service their parents wanted for FREE!
Gee! It's a short step to being comfortable with “free” education to wanting other “free” stuff! Within one to three generations we had:
The IRS
The federal reserve
Direct election of Senators
The failed League of Nations
The feminist movement
FDR's New Deal
Johnson's Great Society
The abolishment of the gold standard
A thousand other socialist programs and agencies
And...Now a Marxist fascist Obama!
What is most exasperating is that few conservatives even understand that government schools are and ALWAYS WERE a socialist Utopian PROGRESSIVE scheme. And..Socialism can NOT NOT NOT be fixed!!!~!!!!!!
Going back to having government schools like they were in the 1950s WILL NOT FIX SOCIALIST MODELED SCHOOLS!!! SOCIALISM CAN NEVER BE FIXED!!!!
( Yes, I am shouting! This first idiotic sentence of this essay is EXASPERATING! I already know the author is an IDIOT!)
The govt. schools of the 50's were not anything I'd wish on anybody.
Thanks for the rant. Obviously, free public education was originated by progressives. The motivations behind the creation of the system were to produce automatons, more or less, the kind of people who vote for baseless platitudes like “hope” and “change.” No, I don’t believe that this idea emerged from the educational protoplasm in the 1960s. The reference was to politicized, party-driven domination of education. Fine, you want to draw it back to some other point. Write your own essay on the subject. I’m placing the turn in the 1960s because the age of Vietnam helped to create a swell of anti-American, anti-conservative ideology. Or, perhaps, it made it more acceptable to the mainstream at that time.
I’m not sure why you’re directing all this frustration at me. I’m fully aware that socialism isn’t a “fixable” idea. I personally would love to see the public school system run out of business by the private/parochial sector. It won’t happen anytime soon, of course, because the government(s) funds the public system with our tax dollars. But as one who works in education, I would love to see the system entirely privatized. I’m not for “fixing” it. The point of this little speculation was to show that the same line of reasoning that has been used to cram health care down our collective throats could be used to effectively nationalize the already-socialized state systems.
So apologies for raising your body temperature a few degrees. I’ll try not to take the idiot comment personally.
Reminds me of a line from The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly...
TUCO (reading note): “’See you soon... id... id...’”
BLONDIE: “’Idiots.’ It’s for you.”