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talkpoliticsTeri 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: Public education is political indoctrination paid for by theft
Date: 16/7/11 18:41 (UTC)Sometimes, when you are dealing with a machine put together for last century's needs, you have to just take the whole thing apart to even get a start on one that's going to work for the newer century.
Between teachers' unions, politicians, and academia's stranglehold on the thing called education, and all of their priorities in the thing, most of which have nothing at all to do with educating people, education itself has become entirely lost.
Asking those groups to fix the thing is pointless. They won't. They don't want it fixed. It's working just fine for them; it's doing for them exactly what they want it to do. It just happens to not be teaching anyone much of anything.