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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: Are you physically incapable of directly answering a question?
Date: 17/7/11 17:27 (UTC)I can't believe that the majority of people on the dole in the US are suffering from sickness and poor health.
Re: Are you physically incapable of directly answering a question?
Date: 17/7/11 17:57 (UTC)It is. And that's why a gov't is a poor decider.
Re: Are you physically incapable of directly answering a question?
Date: 17/7/11 20:09 (UTC)Who was it who "decided" that Mark Price should die?
Re: Are you physically incapable of directly answering a question?
Date: 17/7/11 20:13 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 17/7/11 23:35 (UTC)Your imaginary friend.
Re: Are you physically incapable of directly answering a question?
Date: 18/7/11 00:08 (UTC)Re: Are you physically incapable of directly answering a question?
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Date: 18/7/11 00:47 (UTC)Re: Are you physically incapable of directly answering a question?
Date: 18/7/11 22:27 (UTC)Re: Are you physically incapable of directly answering a question?
Date: 19/7/11 00:08 (UTC)Re: Are you physically incapable of directly answering a question?
Date: 20/7/11 22:07 (UTC)In concert with others, however, using the resources of a government, it's quite possible.
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Date: 20/7/11 22:54 (UTC)