As I contemplate my plans for educating my son, now just a year old, I was considering what do kids really need to learn in elementary school. I couldn’t think of much besides reading, writing and arithmetic, yet somehow, the schools have these kids for six or seven years, seven hours a day, half the days of the year, and they can’t manage to impart those basic skills.
Even if government schools could dependably teach reading, writing, and arithmetic, they should be abolished. They should be abolished even if the inmates of these indoctrination camps are worse off educationally. Why?
Because compulsory, police enforced indoctrination is an assault on freedom of conscience, First Amendment Rights, and the human spirit of the child, the parent, and the citizen who is under police threat to pay for it.
It is impossible for any school to be religiously, politically, or culturally neutral. Such a state can not exist in the mind of any sentient human. It is impossible. When government owns and runs socialist-funded and compulsory-use schools, the most powerful voting faction WILL impose its NON-neutral worldview on the rest of the slaves (oops! “citizens”).
Some slaves were materially far worse off after emancipation. The same was true for many citizens in the old Soviet Block when the Berlin Wall fell, but, the oppression of the human spirit demanded abolition of tyranny regardless of whether the results were good, bad, or indifferent.