"A step closer to educational fascism" 6/24/2008 - The Diigo Meta page

• 25 Jun 08
  

  Wisely

  "In 160 years, California, and, indeed, the nation, has gone from the one-room schoolhouse that was considered a privileged place of learning for motivated students, some of whom had no parents to teach them, to mandatory state-directed detention of millions of young people from age 4 through 18 on a daily basis."

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  • There are essentially two purposes to these government education camps:

     
     
    • to provide jobs for education professionals; and
      
      
     
    • to control and pacify the population by churning out massive numbers of robot-like serfs and subjects incapable of thinking for themselves or demanding their birthright to be self-governing individuals in a free society.
  • It's no wonder state authorities whose primary goal is equality of underachievement want to ban homeschooling. That's because it works!
  • It produces highly literate achievers who score high on standardized tests, who win spelling, math and science bees and who pummel their colleagues in debates and writing competitions. You can't have equality of underachievement as long as homeschooling is permitted.

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