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The purpose of government schools

I have long maintained that instead of calling the government schools, "schools" we ought to be calling them "Government Indoctrination Camps".

This recent decision makes that point more openly than ever, the judge and the lawyers who brought the case both make the point that government schools are NOT about education at all. Note these quotes from a story in the San Francisco Chronicle:

1. From the senile idiot Justice H. Walter Croskey himself:

"A primary purpose of the educational system is to train school children in good citizenship, patriotism and loyalty to the state and the nation as a means of protecting the public welfare," the judge wrote, quoting from a 1961 case on a similar issue.

Of course this is exactly the reason I do NOT want my granddaughter to go to the government indoctrination camps, and will not allow her to, ever! This ruling actually makes it far less likely Serenity will ever set foot in one of those places again.

2. From the busy body state paid "child advocates" who brought the case:

Leslie Heimov, executive director of the Children's Law Center of Los Angeles, which represented the Longs' two children in the case, said...her organization's chief concern was not the quality of the children's education, but their "being in a place daily where they would be observed by people who had a duty to ensure their ongoing safety."

Which of course means, parents are not qualified to raise children, only the state! You know, the ones running the pathetic holding tanks they call schools? The ones who run the IRS and the Post Office? Those people are better parents for kids they barely know than their own families who live with the kids each and every day of their lives? Yeah right.

3. And of course the government indoctrination camp guards union chimed in, you know the ones who say it's so terribly unfair to force teachers to prove they are able to compose a simple sentence or add 2+2 and actually come up with 4 and not 5:

"We're happy," said Lloyd Porter, who is on the California Teachers Association board of directors. "We always think students should be taught by credentialed teachers, no matter what the setting."

This ruling will not stand.

Only the ignorant, or those sucking off of the government tit could say with a straight face that government indoctrination camps are a better place for children than their own homes.

Of course, it goes without saying, that I will cheerfully ignore and violate the law if this nonsense stands and if the man should decide to come after us we could flee to a free state to live and leave the totalitarian socialist peoples workers paradise of California behind, though I honestly do not think that is going to happen.

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