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The purpose of the modern government school is not education, but rather is indoctrination and socialization.

Children are taught to be pliant, cowed and credulous - of anyone (no matter how ignorant or incompetent) in authority, of bullies and their peers.

Students in government schools are there in order to learn a new ethic and unlearn anything taught at home or in church or synagogue. That goes back to the foundations of 'public education' with Horace Mann and J. Dewey.

There is no neutrality in this life and government schools have never been and never will be 'neutral.' In teaching you must of necessity teach out of certain epistemological presuppositions and absolute or ultimate commitments - the teacher will communicate a world & life view no matter how irrational or inane.

Best thing to do if you don't like the tripe in government schools - rather than send your children there to be brainwashed - educate them at a private school, a homeschool co-op or homeschool yourself. Otherwise, you are deliberately turning over your child to be molded and taught by unaccountable educrats.

The point of Government Schools has always been "indoctrination and socialization." The indoctrination just used to be more benign.

It is now important that a majority of the citizenry realize that the end of universal education does not require the means government schools.

Everyone agrees on the end. We need to focus the debate on the means and not let the demagogues control the debate.

This something I posted yesterday on another thread:

Two liberals I know from New York came to visit me recently...they asked me if I thought "gay marriage" would be accepted in America...I said most Americans do not agree with gay marriage(mirage)....The liberals said the reason most of middle America don't agree with it is because they are just plain stupid,ignorant and narrow-minded...They said that American children have been brainwashed by their parents.... I said it is not that they are stupid...they have a moral conviction that it is wrong...they said that most Americans are dumb and need to be reeducated...I said how to you propose to do this. They said it is already being done in the public schools.