From The Other McCain we have Escaping the School Trap
As I warn friends, don’t ever get me started on this subject, because I could go on for hours about what’s wrong with America’s education system, namely everything — every damned thing!
But this isn't just an emotional "I hated school as a kid" rant. He has history and more in store for you.
If you are familiar with the history of education, you know that preschool and kindergarten were not part of public schools until quite recently and, if you go further back — prior to the 1930s — high-school attendance was neither mandatory nor commonplace in many parts of America. In rural counties, public education was provided at the two-room country schoolhouse, the curriculum of which extended only up to eighth grade. There was often only one high school in the entire county, a municipal institution in the county seat and, for example, the farm boy in rural Floyd County, Georgia, who wished to attend Rome High School circa 1914, would have to (a) find someone in town to provide him room and board, and (b) pay for his tuition and books, since the school was funded by city taxes, rather than county taxes.
There is a lot more, from how we got started, to how we get here, where school is more like the industrial production of a standardized product than the nurturing of children.
Public schools are based on government-imposed compulsion, and as such are offensive to the spirit of liberty.
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Offensive to anyone with a brain.
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