What’s unknown is how much of the story as reported comports with the totality of events and what was actually said and done. If all is as related in the OA Online report, it recalls other hysterical overreactions on the part of teachers and school administrators, such as the account of a child suspended for biting a strawberry tart into something supposed adults said looked like a gun, or the teen confronted by officials and police for fantasizing about shooting a neighbor’s pet dinosaur, or my personal favorite, a county-wide school lockdown and detention of a student after a worker misinterpreted the lyrics to “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” that accompanied a voicemail. [More]
Today's Gun Rights Examiner report looks at those who covet the ring of power to the point of madness.
On the contrary, schools (adopted from socialist Prussia in the 1840's) were ALWAYS about indoctrination and about producing compliant citizens. Even John Stuart Mill noted, long ago, that,
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An excellent resource is John Taylor Gatto's "The Underground History of American Education".
"On the contrary" to what?
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