Monday, September 22, 2014

Separating School From State: How to Liberate America's Families



The U.S. Supreme Court 1925, Pierce v. Society of Sisters:
The fundamental theory of liberty upon which all governments in this Union repose excludes any general power of the State to standardize its children by forcing them to accept instruction from public teachers only. The child is not the mere creature of the State

Albert Shanker, President of the American Federation of Teachers:
It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It's no surprise that our school system doesn't improve; it more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy.

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