Trusting the government to educate our kids properly without indoctrinating them at some point in time was trust misplaced....
It's not the govt. educating out kids it is human beings.
CARL L. BANKSTON III is Professor of Sociology at Tulane University and author of Public Education-American’s Civil Religion: A Social History. Robert A. Nisbet was one of the great social theorists of the twentieth century and a profound analyst of the nature and sources of social order. In a...
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"The centralization of American education
and the displacement of pluralistic
local authorities could be seen in many
aspects of American schooling. However,
the revolution from above primarily took
place through two movements: the desegregation
movement and the standardization
movement, both of which profoundly
affected the connections between American
society and American education."
The education system was created for industry and wealth creation by educating the masses to be literate to be able to follow instructions and to be capable of reading and writing, that is what it is still used for. Why are the kids not learning or doing poorly? That is in itself another questions which has several variances of hypothesis. I have observed the public schools in the area where I live because I have a child that is in his senior year. I preferred to homeschool him he wanted to attend school starting at fourth grade.
As far as them teaching leftist ideas I have no idea what exactly you are implying. They have handed out Bibles at my son's schools, that is about as radical as it gets..I live in a rural area and I know it is much different than a big city, I grew up in OKC. It was a rough and tumble place...