![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
paft.livejournal.com posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
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
*
Re: Public education is political indoctrination paid for by theft
Date: 16/7/11 21:44 (UTC)No it isn't.
Also, per your third paragraph, if you seriously believe that "heavy regulation" makes it impossible for clients to be exploited then I have a bridge to sell you.
Not impossible, but certainly harder. Maybe to the point where the costs and risks outweigh the benefits See: Germany's healthcare system. Or Japan's.
My differences with many of those on this forum is over how the rules or made, how they are enforced, and how the infrastructure of society is supported.
The legitimate options are: Public ownership, or regulated private ownership. Unregulated private ownership will never be on the table, for good reasons.
Apply the same argument people feeding themselves and it falls apart.
Private charities didn't cover education before and they won't after. They didn't cover social security before and they won't after.