This is a real civil rights battle. Decades from now people will find it hard to believe that we forced parents to send their children to a designated school no matter how bad, ineffective or full of woke indoctrination without an opportunity to choose a school that better educated children, or that espoused values consistent with the parents. We taxpayers send that money to the state to pay for children's education, not to make them slaves to the teachers' unions and the local district schools. There is no excuse for a third or more of children not to be able to read at grade level in third grade, except that the school insists on using ineffective educational methods and materials. But if they do, it is unconscionable to force parents to send their children there instead of giving them a choice.
Rotten From the Roots: The History of Public Education (12/10/23). By Suzanne Kearney. “Schools teach exactly what they are intended to teach, and they do it well: how to be a good Egyptian and remain in your place in the pyramid,” said John Taylor Gatto in an exposé on compulsory schooling. The public school system is doing precisely what its founders intended. The author discusses these founders and how they created today’s regimented, dumbed down public schools: https://kootenaijournal.com/2023/12/10/rotten-from-the-roots-the-history-of-public-education/
This is a real civil rights battle. Decades from now people will find it hard to believe that we forced parents to send their children to a designated school no matter how bad, ineffective or full of woke indoctrination without an opportunity to choose a school that better educated children, or that espoused values consistent with the parents. We taxpayers send that money to the state to pay for children's education, not to make them slaves to the teachers' unions and the local district schools. There is no excuse for a third or more of children not to be able to read at grade level in third grade, except that the school insists on using ineffective educational methods and materials. But if they do, it is unconscionable to force parents to send their children there instead of giving them a choice.
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Rotten From the Roots: The History of Public Education (12/10/23). By Suzanne Kearney. “Schools teach exactly what they are intended to teach, and they do it well: how to be a good Egyptian and remain in your place in the pyramid,” said John Taylor Gatto in an exposé on compulsory schooling. The public school system is doing precisely what its founders intended. The author discusses these founders and how they created today’s regimented, dumbed down public schools: https://kootenaijournal.com/2023/12/10/rotten-from-the-roots-the-history-of-public-education/