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“Let’s not allow for it to happen here.”

Too late by over half a century! The public schools have been churning out little goodthinkers for at least that period of time.

I disagree. I despised a lot what is going in schools and indeed many public schools are going 1984 way. However, till now parents are still largely in control, students have, though slowly diminishing, access to various sources of information. Also, till now there was no overt, government-enforced indoctrination in schools.

Let's keep it that way and let's reverse the 1984 tendencies while we are at it.

I use to say that I went to school during the dark ages of the 50’s and 60’s but I now believe I went to school during the best time of all. We had teachers who knew what teaching was about, did not wear clothes like they were going to a picnic, really knew their subject matter, kept back kids who did not learn, etc. I remember one time my high school English teacher and I got into a disagreement about girls having to wear Sunday clothes to a football game. I said it was silly but she said it was important to dress up. I wonder what she would think nowadays the way game goers dress.

In my small town, the parents knew the teachers and knew the teachers would not allow any nonsense. Some students did get a car on top of the 3 story building. I often wondered how that was done but no one was talking. Then there was the time that one of my brothers and some friends stole a teacher's car and drove it down into a gully. The only big problem with that was that the teacher saw what they did and told my dad and the dads of the others. Don't think they did that anymore.