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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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Date: 17/7/11 14:56 (UTC)Seriously, context IS important.
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Date: 17/7/11 15:42 (UTC)I find it difficult to "white-knight" you guys in the face of occasions like this but I keep trying because I like you. ;)
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Date: 17/7/11 15:53 (UTC)My point is that "hard-on" in this context is no more sexual/sexist than using the "f" word, which if you do the etymology of, is an extemely sexist word (granting I looked this up many (many) years ago) which, sexist (among other things I am accused of being) I may be, is why I never use it.