Agit8r
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Neoliberalism involves the dogma of privatizing everything, including education. That isn't what our founders believed in at all.
"there should not be a district of one Mile square without a school in it, not founded by a Charitable individual but maintained at the expence of the People themselv they must be taught to reverence themselvs instead of adoreing their servants their Generals Admirals Bishops and Statesmen"
-- John Adams; from letter to John Jebb (Sept. 10, 1785)
"The first stage of this education being the schools of the hundreds, wherein the great mass of the people will receive their instruction, the principal foundations of future order will be laid here. Instead, therefore, of putting the Bible and Testament into the hands of the children at an age when their judgments are not sufficiently matured for religious inquiries, their memories may here be stored with the most useful facts"
-- Thomas Jefferson; from 'Notes on Virginia' Query XIV
"It is better for the poorer classes to have the aid of the richer by a general tax on property, than that every parent should provide at his own expence for the education of his children, it is certain that every Class is interested in establishments which give to the human mind its highest improvements, and to every Country its truest and most durable celebrity."
-- James Madison; from letter to W.T. Barry (Aug. 4, 1822)
Based on your post....you must actually be imagining that the wholly owned subsidiary of Liberalism, Inc., the government school system....
....is doing the job it did when it was less biased, less under the thumb of Leftists like John Dewey and Paulo Freire and Barack Obama.
Or....do you see our current system as.....exemplary?
We should clearly have a better funded school system. After all, to render the people safe to govern, "their minds must be improved to a certain degree."
"....a better funded school system."
And in your post one finds the very heart of why Liberals, Progressives, socialists, fascists, Nazis and Communists all get it wrong.
Materialism.
Money will not fix the schools, the welfare system, or....mark the path to a better society.
….conservatives don’t look for material solutions, but believe that it is a change of values needed to cure poverty, education, and every other ill that besets society.
Only the most superstitious of them believe that.
"We were convinced that the people need and require this faith. We have therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that not merely with a few theoretical declarations: we have stamped it out."
-- Adolf Hitler, from speech in Berlin (October 24, 1933