[Piquaboy]

Control of the school system is right out of the Marx/Lenin playbook.

[RunningJoke]

"The important point is that the lack of the conviction that I have the ability and the right to teach others marks me as a non-intellectual. For the intellectual is above all a teacher and considers it his God-given right to tell the ignorant majority what to do. To ignore this teacher complex is to ignore the intellectual's central characteristic and miss the key to his aspirations and grievances. I am sure that the passion to teach has been a crucial factor in the rise of the revolutionary movements of our time. In most cases when a revolutionary takes over a country, he turns it into a vast schoolroom with a population of cowed, captive pupils cringing at his feet. When he speaks the whole country listens."

[RAY]

In some countries, the Islamic Fundamentalist control the state sponsored schools! We know the results of that!

Most home schooled children score much higher academically than those in the public schools.

[o_zarkman44]

The Commie philosophy. Control the minds of the children and you secure your future. You are exactly right.

[LauraJean]

You're right I am now taking a class in the history of American education. In the 1820s there was a demand from the Workingmans Party for ''common schools'' The leaders of this party were Robert Owen and Frances Wright, both socialist reformers and atheistics. Their most radical plan was the formation of governmental boarding schools. All children from the ages of 5 to 12 would be placed under the custody of the government. All the children would receive ''equal clothes, equal food and an equal education.''