I’ve written frequently decrying what’s going on in government run schools—so-called “public” schools—across the country, especially the way they’ve been used to advance the Prog agenda to secularize American society. Indeed, I’ve also maintained that it’s precisely the loss of religious faith that has made Americans so vulnerable to the Prog agenda when pushed in various guises—such as the Covid Regime—that are supposedly in aid of goals that Progs place under the attractive headings of public safety or toleration.
"The U.S. was founded in an era when almost all schooling was private and religious" and prior to compulsory public schooling, the US was ranked as the most educated.
Instead, the goal is to produce compliant subjects of the Progressive state" Indeed, the public education system was purpose designed.
I like to talk about this issue in terms of "Separation of School and State". The limited government of a free republic should have no business whatsoever in funding or administering schools, certifying teachers, formulating standardized tests, or any of that. The parallels to the familiar principle of "Separation of School and Church" should be clear.
But back in the real world, where we're already some miles down the wrong road, I point people at resources like https://www.publicschoolexit.com, and tell them that there's no free lunch and if they're not the customers, they're the product. That's just common sense.
I think the thing we often miss in this conversation is that every state has the legal means and ability to tell the feds to pound salt and go their own way. That applies to everything from roadways to education...
They simply choose not to... The free government crack of unchecked borrowed endless dollars keep everyone of them in line with federal "progress".
So who do we fault here? A federal government operating in our states schools or the state that welcomes them?
Checking over the Constitution, you will not find education or healthcare in there as an enumerated power. 10th Amendment should leave both under jurisdiction of the states, as it was for a long, long time.
Public schools once stressed assimilation into the American project. Most people believed that this was critical to social cohesion given our broad spectrum of national origins. It has only been in the past 60 years that assimilation was supplanted by multicultural atomization. Sure, there were issues on the margins about public schools being advantaged over parochial schools, but on the whole most American public school parents were satisfied enough with the curriculum until the Marxists got their noses under the tent. Two working parent families--and increasingly one parent families--turned over more of their parental responsibilities to school administrators who were only too happy to fill the gap with highly secular ideas coming out of radical schools of education.
Maybe public schools have always been unconstitutional, but it seems to me that it has only been since they began venturing into leftist propaganda that they lost value to society.
"The U.S. was founded in an era when almost all schooling was private and religious" and prior to compulsory public schooling, the US was ranked as the most educated.
Instead, the goal is to produce compliant subjects of the Progressive state" Indeed, the public education system was purpose designed.
The short version: https://youtu.be/HZp7eVJNJuw
The long version: https://youtu.be/WpycMRTBrfY
I like to talk about this issue in terms of "Separation of School and State". The limited government of a free republic should have no business whatsoever in funding or administering schools, certifying teachers, formulating standardized tests, or any of that. The parallels to the familiar principle of "Separation of School and Church" should be clear.
But back in the real world, where we're already some miles down the wrong road, I point people at resources like https://www.publicschoolexit.com, and tell them that there's no free lunch and if they're not the customers, they're the product. That's just common sense.
I think the thing we often miss in this conversation is that every state has the legal means and ability to tell the feds to pound salt and go their own way. That applies to everything from roadways to education...
They simply choose not to... The free government crack of unchecked borrowed endless dollars keep everyone of them in line with federal "progress".
So who do we fault here? A federal government operating in our states schools or the state that welcomes them?
Checking over the Constitution, you will not find education or healthcare in there as an enumerated power. 10th Amendment should leave both under jurisdiction of the states, as it was for a long, long time.
Public schools once stressed assimilation into the American project. Most people believed that this was critical to social cohesion given our broad spectrum of national origins. It has only been in the past 60 years that assimilation was supplanted by multicultural atomization. Sure, there were issues on the margins about public schools being advantaged over parochial schools, but on the whole most American public school parents were satisfied enough with the curriculum until the Marxists got their noses under the tent. Two working parent families--and increasingly one parent families--turned over more of their parental responsibilities to school administrators who were only too happy to fill the gap with highly secular ideas coming out of radical schools of education.
Maybe public schools have always been unconstitutional, but it seems to me that it has only been since they began venturing into leftist propaganda that they lost value to society.