education (or not) and the state

This is where they indoctrinate the kids to be "good citizens" (eg: rat on your parents or neighbors):

20 April 2002 - 'Freedom' banned in school?, by Joel Miller, WorldNetDaily

Compulsory attendance at government schools

Compulsory Education Laws; the Dialog Re-opens, Home School Legal Defense Association

mixed proposals & their drawbacks:

8 August 2002 - Taking the Voucher Bait, by Warren Mass, New American - Programs relying on government funding, including school voucher programs, eventually will destroy what they promise to support.

Alternatives:

Educate-Yourself

Home Schooling

25 February 2003 - The Why of Homeschool, by Isabel Lyman, Ludwig von Mises Institute
Home School Legal Defense Association

Cyber schooling

15 October 2002 - Cyber Schools Compete with Traditional Public Schools, by Lisa Snell, Reason Public Policy Institute

The public (government) schools fight back:

23 August 2002 - Crusading to keep kids clueless, Michelle Malkin, Jewish World Review

Activism/books against government-controlled schools:

Alliance for the Separation of School and State

Charlotte Iserbyt, Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, a chronological history of the past 100+ years of education reform. Each chapter takes a period of history and recounts the significant events, including important geopolitical and societal contextual information. Citations from government plans, policy documents, and key writings by leading reformers record the rise of the modern education reform movement.

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