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To: knit1purl2
Public schools? Isn’t that counterintuitive? After all, the notion of “(f)ree education for all children in public schools” is one of the ten planks of communism outlined in the Communist Manifesto. Sounds inherently far-left to me.
3 posted on 08/24/2013 6:01:32 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
Just for the record, free public education was enshrined in the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, one of the three pieces of organic law, along with the Declaration and the Constitution, on which this country was founded.

The purpose was to insure an educated and moral citizenry, without which a democratic republic could not endure. There are many good conservative American teachers but not enough, and they do need an organization of their own. Maybe some motivated freeper teacher could start one.

7 posted on 08/24/2013 6:17:10 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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