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Here’s some links to some education threads (also containing numerous helpful links)

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Illiterate in Boston: Samuel Blumenfeld explains U.S.'s ongoing reading problem
Source: WorldNetDaily.com; Published: July 20, 2001
Author:Samuel Blumenfeld
NEA - Let our children go!
Source: WorldNet Daily; Published: June 23. 2001
Author: Linda Harvey
Why Do Schools Play Games With Students' Minds ?
Source: The Detroit News; Published: April 1, 2001
Author: Thomas Sowell
The Public School Nightmare: Why fix a system designed to destroy individual thought?
Source: http://home.talkcity.com/LibraryDr/patt/homeschl.htm
Author: John Taylor Gatto
Dumbing down teachers
Source: USNews.com; Published: 2/21/01
Author: John Leo
Free Republic links to education related articles (thread#8)
Source: Free Republic; Published: 3-20-2001
Author: Various
Are children deliberately 'dumbed down' in school? {YES!!!}
Source: World Net Daily; Published: May 13, 2001
Author: Geoff Metcalf {Interview}
New Book Explores America's Education Catastrophe
Source: Christian Citizen USA; Published: April 2000
Author: William H. Wild
Deliberately dumbing us down (Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt's, "The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America"
Source: WorldNetDaily.com; Published: December 2,1999
Author: Samuel L. Blumenfeld
Could they really have done it on purpose?
Source: THE LIBERTARIAN; Published: 07/28/2000
Author: Vin Suprynowicz
From the Littleton Crisis to Government Control link
The UN Plan for Your Mental Health link

This is one aspect of what I was talking about WRT to schools at the last Kootenai County Republican Central Comittee meeting.

The nature of the ‘debate’ I've heard there and elsewhere can be likened to a situation where we’re showing kids porn films and merely arguing over the size of the next theater that we’re going fund and build.

It’s all meaningless unless we address what is taught and how it is taught…