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| 2015-05-10 |
| [Reason] Damon Root: Earlier this week my colleague J.D. Tuccille commented on the work of two left-wing British political philosophers who believe that strict limits should be placed on the rights of parents in order to create "a more level playing field" for all children. For example, according to one of the philosophers, "private schooling cannot be justified.... It's just not the case that in order for a family to realise these intimate, loving, authoritative, affectionate, love-based relationships you need to be able to send your child to an elite private school." Because we can't successfully indoctrinate children if they are not all in the Government indoctrination centers. I mean Schools. I wonder if these progressive British philosophers are aware that the idea of banning private education has already been tried and rejected here in the United States. Back in 1922, the Ku Klux Klan and other anti-Catholic groups spearheaded an Oregon initiative that resulted in the prohibition of all private schooling within that state. Known as the Compulsory Education Act, this law required all children between the ages of eight and 16 to attend "a public school for the period of time a public school shall be held during the current year." The Society of Sisters, a corporate entity organized in 1880 to provide for the care and education of orphans, challenged this prohibition in federal court, arguing that it violated the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment, which forbids the states from depriving "any person [including corporate persons] of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." Not only do we need equality of income regardless of our job, but we all need to be equally un-educated. Unfortunately for both yesterday's Ku Klux Klan and today's progressive British political philosophers, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of the Society of Sisters and struck down the private school ban. According to the majority opinion of Justice James McReynolds, "the child is not the mere creature of the state." |
| Posted by:Deacon Blues |
| #4 That's ridiculous ... clearly the Artic means the NOT-JUST-"BIG"-BUT-"BIG[GEST]"-GOVT. Where "near-Socialist" + "near-Utopian" + "Near-Marxist" + "near-Totalitarian" + near-Globalist" + ...??? = ARE "NEARLY SYNONYMOUS". [WAYNE'S WORLD" "THUMBS UP" here]. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-05-10 19:48 |
| #3 "There is NOTHING outside of the State!" Benito Mussolini |
| Posted by: borgboy 2015-05-10 16:11 |
| #2 There is always some leftwingnut organization trying to ban something. So far, their efforts have done much to damage education. Progressives are not progressive (or tolerant, or accepting, or sane, or peaceful, or logical folks, or fill in the blank). |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-05-10 10:02 |
| #1 ...to create "a more level playing field" for all children. These are the people who profess the science of Darwin over knuckle dragging religious fundamentalists. Some adapt, some don't adapt. "No child left behind" means all children are left behind under the bureaucracy of the state, except the apparatchiks' kids. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-05-10 08:54 |