Public schools have become nothing more than babysitters and propaganda machines that feed the party line to brainwash children into liberal ideology and that is why the public school system in our country is a complete and utter failure and a complete waste of time, money and resources.
I must address your statement because it implies that government schools can somehow be reformed. If we could go back to some magical era when government schools were not babysitters and propaganda machines, that somehow government education could be reformed.
Please think about the following:
Socialist-funded, single payer, government schools are the very essence and definition of socialism. Socialism can NOT NOT NOT be reformed. It must be SHUT DOWN and replaced with private alternatives.
Simply by attending, children learn that the government has the power to take money from a neighbor that the parents want for tuition-free! And...Worse!..The teachers teach the child that it is his **right**! Do this for 13 or more years and the child soon becomes comfortable with taking his neighbor's money. If the government can give the child schooling, why not a thousand other socialist wants and needs?
Socialist-funded and modeled programs **always** move to more and more government control, centralization, inefficiency, and ***always** attract those with Marxist tendencies and beliefs. ALWAYS! This is why socialist, single payer government schools must be shut down and replaced with private schools.
Our socialist-funded and socialist-modeled government schools have **always** been in the control of the Utopian progressives. This was true from the day the first government schools opened in the mid-1800s to early 1900s.
Socialist-funded, socialist-modeled, Prussian-style government schools were the wet dream of the Utopian progressives of the 1800s. Utopian progressives have **always** controlled teacher development and curriculum. Utopian progressives started with a watered down Christianity and the move has **always** been toward more and more secularism and atheism.
None of the above can be fixed. It is impossible to fix it because it is intrinsic to the system. It must be ABOLISHED!
1 to 3 generations of socialist schooling made Woodrow Wilson, the League of Nations, feminism, unions, the IRS, and the direct election of senators, INEVITABLE!!!
Socialist schooling made Franklin D. Roosevelt, INEVITALBE!
Socialist schooling made Lyndon B. Johnson and his Great Society and failed Vietnam War policies INEVITABLE! ( As well as Durranty and Cronkite.)
Socialist government schools made OBAMA INEVITABLE!!!!