Why?
1) **ALL** government schools in this nation are socialist-funded. They have **always** been socialist-funded since they first opened in the mid-1800s to mid-1900s.
Conclusion: If children attend socialist schools they WILL learn to be comfortable with socialism! They WILL learn that the government has enormous police power to take money from a neighbor to pay for a service their parents want for tuition-free. Well?...If government can take money from a neighbor for tuition-free school, why not a thousand other socialist wants and needs?
Socialist government schools bred a society that elected Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt ( New Deal), Lyndon B. Johnson ( Great Society), Carter, Clinton, and now ( Hope and Change) Obama. SOCIALIST, GODLESS, GOVERENMENT SCHOOLS MADE THIS INEVITABLE!
2) **ALL** government schools in this nation are GODLESS! **ALL** of them. Simply by attending, children learn to be comfortable with godlessness, and learn to think godlessly.
Our first modern socialist-funded government schools ( mid-1800s to early 1900s) offered up a generic and lukewarm Protestantism. ( We know what Christ does with the lukewarm. He spits them out of His mouth!) By my grandmother's day ( born 1894) the schools were essentially godless with a sprinkle of prayer in the morning...however..I will concede that having basically Christian teachers did mitigate the effects of the godless curriculum at least through the 1950s.
3)Nearly all government schools in this nation are government owned and run. Simply by attending children learn to be comfortable with government owning and running a school service. Well? If government can own and run schools why not a thousand other services? Why not car companies, banks, hospitals?, clinics?, gas stations?, oil refineries?, farms?, etc.
If children attend socialist-funded, government run and owned, godless schools, children WILL WILL WILL learn to be comfortable with socialism, godlessness, and will see government at their redeemer and savior.
And...Yes!...I am shouting, jumping up and down, and having a fit! I am exasperated that conservatives do not see the urgency in getting our nation's children into a conservative and PRIVATE educational setting. The government schools should be closed down, burned to the ground and the earth salted! An alternative would be to refit them as prisons and hire the NEA workers as prison guards. The schools look like prisons anyway.
Government schools came about because they saw the advantage the Catholic school children had in society AND almost immediately sought to limit the amount of influence religion played in the classroom.
I agree with your assessment, but it is important that we point out what is wrong with public schools.
It helps to illustrate the point that “more money” is NOT the solution!