Public Schools likened to State Church

[Ava Rose]

Here is an article some of you may find interesting about our public school system. (http://http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20071025/cm_csm/ycarperhunt)

[Ava Rose]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20071025/cm_csm/ycarperhunt

Here is the link that works. I think I cut out part of it in my first post.

[Actressdancer]

*Standing O*

[seekingmyLord]

The role of government in a democracy should be to see that the public is educated, not to mandate, directly or indirectly through financial policies, one particular form of education. When the government privileges a specific set of propositions of knowledge and dispositions of value and belief, it has established the educational equivalent of a state church. Such an arrangement is just as incompatible with liberty of conscience, as were the established churches of America's early history.
:love: Wow!

[Ava Rose]

I wish I could have said it as well as the author did!