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Teri Adams, Head of Independence Hall Tea Party and School Voucher Activist:

Our ultimate goal is to shut down public schools and have private schools only, eventually returning responsibility for payment to parents and private charities. It’s going to happen piecemeal and not overnight. It took us years to get into this mess and it’s going to take years to get out of it.

In other words, Adams would like education to be, along with medical care, available only to those who can pony up the cash for it.

The article I’ve linked to includes a few quotes from people speculating about what drives the American right’s hostility towards public education. The ban on teacher-led prayer is invoked, along with the mercenary desire to funnel the money now paid into public schools into private hands.

I suspect it’s much more simple than that. Without universal education, the far right wouldn’t have to contend with so many pesky arguments about the facts of history, math, science, etc.

Crossposted from Thoughtcrimes

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The other day at work a co-worker asked me how a certain tester worked because his understanding of electrical systems would mandate a test probe that the tester did not provide.

I told him it didn't need it because it's designed to do so non-invasively. He kept asking me "but how??"

Eventually I told him, "Look, I don't know how it works. Maybe it uses some electrical property of the system we don't realize or understand but it works."

And he responded again... "but how does it work?"

To which I just said, "I don't know but it does!"

Nah, I can understand genuinely wanting to know the answer to something like that. The key question is, is your co-worker the kind of person to do his own digging and looking for answers besides just asking you over and over again.

Answers to the question you're talking about and answers to the questions about mechanisms a free society might use to guarantee property and provide security are in abundance, especially using the internet as a resource.

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Re: And by what mechanism, and with what resources, would those rules be made and enforced?

Re: And by what mechanism, and with what resources, would those rules be made and enforced?