The conservative movement, is being decimated in the field of education. I do not underestimate the opposition, I have studied them and their movement for a quarter of a century. They are a formidable foe, who will fight tooth and nail to keep the bread on their table and react like cornered rats when their ability to spread their ideology is threatened. To me Marxism is a sinister form of mental paedeophilia.
In 1910 William Allen White ( a cohort of John Dewey) supported a scheme for paying parents for the loss of family income which resulted in a child going to school instead of working.
"A few states ," White wrote," notably in Ohio, make provision for the reimbursement of parents for the time children are in school," he adds " For the pittance a child earns is little compared with the need of the state for that child's judgement formed by atrained mind in making public sentiment when he is grown."
The reference to the "need of the state" is bone chilling.Reformers who write of "the need of the state" are, first cousins to every dictator and despot who ever lived.
There can no more be a reasonable left than a young lady can be a little bit pregnant.Perhaps you are willing to swallow Walzer's a kinder gentler Stalin.