JISHOU, HUNAN — Recently, I wrote a reaction to the Christian rightwing hijacking of the Texas Board of Education, and the anti-public education views of one of its members. A visitor named Joey swung by this week, and left this comment:
That a functioning democracy requires, first, a well-educated, literate public and, second, a public that shares the same knowledge about the history and political philosophy of the nation is the basic thinking of any statist, when public schools are to serve as the chief means to achieve this homogeneity of thinking.
It’s no wonder there are parents and organization already determined to abolish public schools by opting out from compulsory education.
It’s an effective way to fight tyranny, particularly the tyranny of the majority.
You will note that Joey has nothing directly to say about the Texas BOE, but definitely agrees that public education is a Bad Thing.
I don’t, though I am a critic of public education. My reply was this:
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