[MegaSilver]

This is exactly how they snatched them away from their Catholic faith in France: free and compulsory (not really, but parents have been intimidated into believing it was compulsory) LAIQUE education from the turn of the 20th century on.

On this account, George W. Bush can be said to have done as much or more damage to the cultural landscape as or than any other President within the memory of those alive: Leave no child behind in our Communist-run public schools.

WE DON'T NEED NO EDUCATION. Long live Pink Floyd.

[ScottinVA]

If an abandonment of statist practices has to wait until 2024, we`re not going to need to concern ourselves with saving the republic, because there`ll be nothing left.

[Old Landmarks]

The extemist left deliberately lied and deceived their way into almost complete control of public education (lying to parents on a mass scale) because the extremist left knew their goals could not be achieved without overwhelming brainwashing and demoralizing of American children.

Still you will find libertarian types and others on Free Republic complaining about social conservatives being off base when actually it is social conservatives who are in line with America's centuries old values, the same values under decades of assault from the extemist left's public education monopoly.

[RecoveringPaulisto]

This is one of many reasons why I believe 2012 is our last best chance to restore the Constitution and the rule of law in our society. An all-out campaign led by a real conservative has to happen, and it has to be a winning campaign. While some of the people in my generation are starting to wake up (I’m in the young voter category), I’m just not certain that the liberal education will wear off without a massive awakening.

[rogue yam]

ping

[wintertime]

constitutional restorationism.
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Hm?....I like that very much! Constitutional restorationism.

Please check my new tag line.

[wintertime]

But education is the missing link...

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Government K-12 education (and a lot of private school education, too) is our nation's MOST serious threat!!! I have posted this many times and I **seriously** mean it!

If conservatives give a twit about their own kids, about the Constitution, and the future of this nation, they will work to shut down the government K-12 schools! They will work to get their own kids and the children of our nation into private educational settings that uphold the principles upon which this nation was founded.

And...NO NO NO government can NOT be reformed. They were a progressive idea in the beginning. Progressives have always control teacher training and curriculum development. Progressives have always pushed for more and more godless secularism. Government schools were socialist-funded, compulsory, and run by the collectivist voting mob from the beginning!

There is NO WAY that socialist, compulsory, and voter mob schools can be reformed.

Finally,....It is more urgent that we shut down the government K-12 schools. If our nation's colleges were filled to the brim with students who could defend our nation's principles and their faith, their Marxist professors would wither before their righteousness. These Marxists would be like the Wicked Witch of the West, “Help me! I'm melting!”