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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>
> Well, try as one might, there are some people who are never going to get 
> it.
> It's not a matter of agreeing or disagreeing with the premise, it's 
> whether
> one understands it to beging with.  It would be more frustrating if it 
> weren't
> so amusing the number of times one hears, "I went to PS and  it did me no
> harm" and yet the indoctrination is so deep and permeating that they still 
> can't
> get past the notion that any critique of the idea of government schools is
> saying that they are broken down, deteriorated, in need of repair.
>
> It's not that government schools are doing a bad job or manned by bad 
> people.
> In fact the ones doing the "best" job (by their standards) and have the 
> best
> people are doing the worst harm.
>
> > This is why PS is a good thing. Millions of kids in this country have
> parents like Bev had who don't care.
>
> The reason there are so many parents who dont' care is because over the 
> past
> centruy and a half we've created an institution that allows, encourages,
> promotes, and fosters parents not to care.  If you want to have kids and 
> largely
> ignore them, fine, the government schools will take care of the problem.
>
> Saying that we need government schools because of what would happen to
> children with the bad parents the government shcools created in such 
> numbers in the
> first place is the same argument that was used to perpetuate slavery. 
> Turn
> them all loose????  Why, that would create social chaos, those slaves 
> don't know
> how to take care of themselves.  Freedom might work for some people, but 
> it's
> a good thing we have the plantations for those for whom it doesn't work.

O.K., we have to stop this agreeing business <g>

So, people, read what James/Denise wrote and then read again what the 
founders of the p.s. system had to say:

"Our schools of learning by producing one general and uniform system of 
education, will RENDER THE MASS OF THE PEOPLE MORE HOMOGENOUS and THEREBY 
FIT THEM MORE EASILY FOR UNIFORM AND PEACEABLE GOVERNMENT."

"LET OUR PUPIL BE TAUGHT THAT HE DOES NOT BELONG TO HIMSELF, BUT THAT HE IS 
PUBLIC PROPERTY."

"We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look
upon all PARENTS AS HAVING GIVEN HOSTAGES TO OUR CAUSE."

"Third, the state was posited as the TRUE PARENT of children."

Lynda