No one posed the issue more forthrightly than did Isabel Patterson in her book "The God of the Machine," written in 1943: "There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than is required to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay for the procedure." She declared that "every politically controlled education system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy, sooner or later. ...
A tax-supported compulsory educational system --- is the complete model of the totalitarian state."
Patterson wasn't talking about Cuba, she was talking about America. Her words are prophetic. It is plain to see, for anyone who wishes to see, that the government of the United States has begun the process of usurping parental rights, and dictating what our children may and may not know, believe, think and value.
Your post regarding the education system (so very accurate, by the way) stands in good company on this thread where tame attempts to clarify the meaning of the Declaration of Independence.
[BTW, why have you stopped posting in poetic form? Some of your haiku was inspired!]