Get Rid of Public Schools – If It Saves Just One Child

If it saves just one child...

Public school has for many been a cesspool of child-on-child abuse (and adult-on-child abuse as well).  How many future criminals found their beginning in being raised in the impersonal environment of the school as peers abused them while teachers were busy trying to avoid trouble and their parent(s) were too busy staying employed.  Yes! Bullying!  Liberals are anti-bullying, right?  Cause-celebre.  I don't remember liberals having much to say about bullying before it could be used as an excuse to preach same-sex normalcy in the schools.  In fact, I don't see them doing anything to prevent the harrassment of the overweight, the mildly autistic, the shy, the geeks, the defenseless.  It's all about the liberal reinvention of the family, not a wit about the kids that have always been abused and continue to be abused.  In fact, the aggressive kids are coddled and repeatedly shown that there are few consequences for being nasty.  (Few consequences as long as they don't express themselves in a way that is pro-gun, pro-God, or pro-military, anyway.)

I've seen a lot of mental illness develop from immersion in the hostile environment of public schools, and I think many kids have been irreparably hurt by it that would have had a much better chance of mental health if home-schooled.  I myself was largely self-taught, and I believe public school would probably have succeeded in destroying my self-esteem and made my performance more average and ordinary in the No Child Moves Ahead lockstep of the public school system.

See, Progressivism desperately needs this implied contract: You need to work (both of you parents) in order to send us that check--in return we will teach your children how to think, in addition to teaching the children of whoever manages to sneak into this country.  Keep producing that income for us.  We do the rearing, you make the goods.  Then later your children will make goods for us, like properly taught  collectivists.

Modern Education

“You can’t make Socialists out of individualists - children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming, where everyone is interdependent.”
    -John Dewey, father of public education in U.S.

“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened.”
 - Norman Thomas, socialist and member of the American Civil Liberties Union

“Is it not quite certain that the ordinary elementary schoolmaster will think it not merely natural but simply conscientious to eradicate all these rugged legends of a laborious people, and on principle to preach soap and Socialism against beer and liberty? In the lower classes the schoolmaster does not work for the parent but against the parent. Modern education means handing down the customs of the minority, and rooting out the customs of the majority. Instead of their Christlike charity, their Shakespearean laughter and their Homeric reverence for the dead, the poor have imposed on them mere pedantic copies of the remote rich. They must think a bathroom a necessity, because to the lucky it is a luxury; they must swing Swedish clubs, because their masters are afraid of English cudgels; and they must get over their prejudice against being fed by the parish, because aristocrats feel no shame about being fed by the nation.” 

   - G.K. Chesterton