An Army of One (What it's like to be the only Republican in your high school)

Weekly Standard ^ | From the October 25, 2004 issue | Dan Gelernter

[Happygal]

Conservatives are scarce around here and outspoken ones are scarcer.

Time for the kid to stop fighting ideological battles in the lunch room, and pay attention in English class!

[rmlew]

The liberal elites and their children have no real attachment to America. The schoolbooks they iompose are aimed at unermining America.
I had a similar experience in 1994 at a private school in NYC. AP US History on the day after that election day was a memorable experience. The teacher went into a monologue on the need for the privileged to do a better job of leading the American people in the correct (ie left) direction.
We had many of the same textbooks. I'm fairly certain that almost all students in America use one of 3 liberal textbooks in history classes.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

The tale of a Yankee Conservative in a Connecticut Circus...

I believe (in fact I hope) that the Publik Skool System, from grade school through college, will become an obsolete dinosaur as online education, private schools, and home schooling become more available.

[AHerald]

This has gotta be Dave Gerlertner's son....no?

Same thought here. This kid is obviously brilliant beyond his years, not merely educated. The bio at republicandan.blogspot.com doesn't give any info at all, but I think this is Gelernter's kid.

Gelertner teaches nearby at Yale. One of his sons is in fact named Daniel, who was six when his dad was attacked by the Unabomber in 1993; so he'd be about the same age the blogger (info from an article I Googled: Death in the Mail -- Tracking a Killer: A special report

I also recall seeing a TechTV program on Gelernter a few years back which included segements with his two sons. The older boy was very interested in politics and government, showed off his poltical memorbilia, and boasted of having personally met various important government officials, like the FBI director.

Pretty decent circumstantial case.

[rmlew]

As I noted private schools are also infected.
At heart, I believe in the separation of school and state. However, the reality is that 150 years of public education will no disappear any time soon. We need to retake public schools and use them to shape good citizens.

[headsonpikes]

Only the kids will have the courage to shut down the government schools.

[lancer]

It's strange, but there are google reports on "David Gelertner" (2 Rs) and on "David Gerlertner" (3 Rs) . They both appear to be computer scientists.
One entry: Interestingly, because of his technology involvement and predictions, David Gerlertner was crippled and nearly killed by a bomb; he has never recovered his full hearing or full use of his right hand....David Gerlertner wrote another book: Mirror Worlds, in '92 - and has now started a company called Mirror Worlds Technologies, with software called Scopeware.

Another: David Gelernter is professor of computer science at Yale, chief scientist at Mirror Worlds Technologies, contributing editor at the Weekly Standard and member of the National Council of the Arts. He's the author of several books and many technical articles; also essays, art criticism and fiction. The "tuple spaces" introduced in Carriero and Gelernter's Linda system (1983) are the basis of many computer-communication and distributed programming systems worldwide. "Mirror Worlds" (1991) "foresaw" the World Wide Web

So here we have the same guy, apparently, with two different spellings of his name on the record.

It took me a few times to remember that he spell his name with 3 Rs.