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They Could Always Go Work in Factories
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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Re: And by what mechanism, and with what resources, would those rules be made and enforced?
If one wants something, one pays for it, makes it oneself, trades for it, or receives it as a gift. If one wants to organize, the organization must be voluntary, not presumed under some sort of collectivist mysticism based upon race, religion, tribe, or geographical location. If one wants to partake of the goods and services of others, one obtains voluntary permission through persuasion, not plunder.
There is the operating criterion for any just organization or individual in a free society that claims to respect the common humanity. Any organization, organized for any purpose not violative of these means is legitimate. This would include any organization created for the purpose of providing security, or redress of grievances or dispute resolution.
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?
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?
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?