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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 20:32 (UTC)Slavery is the institution whereby some group, the slave owners, are entitled, by right, supposedly, to claim some portion of the products of the time labor and efforts of others, the slaves. There is nothing ridiculous in the claim that the assertion that education is a right is effectively a claim of slave ownership on those who would be presumed to be obligated to teach, or to provide funds to that end.
Re: Public education is political indoctrination paid for by theft
Date: 16/7/11 20:36 (UTC)Also taxing people does not make them slaves
Re: Public education is political indoctrination paid for by theft
Date: 16/7/11 21:24 (UTC)Why would they be obligated to teach?
Re: Public education is political indoctrination paid for by theft
Date: 16/7/11 23:33 (UTC)I'm not buying the slave labor part, since it conflicts with other rights.