Contumacious
Radical Freedom
Government at all levels has failed education, hence the people continue to "degenerate into a populace." this is, unfortunately something of a vicious cycle at this point. People are ignorant, they think that public education is marxist in origin, so they undermine the diffusion of knowledge or try to use it to promote theocracy, like our enemies in the world
Of course it is fascist in origin.
But that is irrelevant since "education" is primarily financed and controlled by the state. My daughter's HS civics textbook stated that Americans should not be ashamed about applying for welfare and food stamps.
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the authors of our Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights were fascists?
*facepalm*
The issue of state financed and compulsory education was not before the Constitutional Convention because education was not considered a state issue back then.
Had the issue been debated then we would really know how they actually fell.
The first state to finance education and to compel attendance was the People's Republic Of Taxachussets in the late 1800's. By them all the Founding Fathers were dead.
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