[identity profile] paft.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] talkpolitics
Teri 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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From: [identity profile] montecristo.livejournal.com
Shockingly enough, I agree with some of what you said. Eventually, there will be a lot of surprised libertarians, both small-L and large, who are stunned to see a freer system evolve without their pushing it. The rising capital base and the growing and diversifying division of labor network are raising the opporunity cost on political coercive systems every day at an accelerating rate. Something is going to give, just as it always has. Freedom is a teleological inevitability barring the destruction of humankind and its accumulated wealth and knowledge on an almost unthinkably massive scale. The days of the Westphalian State are numbered, just as were those of the outmoded systems that came before it.
From: [identity profile] underlankers.livejournal.com
And then Comrade Stalin shoots the counterrevolutionaries with a bullet to the back of the head.

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