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The Most Public School Thing Ever

David Strom:

Public schools—really, they should be called "government schools"—long ago gave up the idea that they existed solely to educate children. 

I really can't say exactly when, if there is a definitive "when," this transformation occurred. I suspect it happened in much the same way that bankruptcy does: slowly, then all at once. 

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Case in point: the successful fight to turn May Day, the communist holiday on which the old Soviet Union paraded, into a "Day of Civic Action," on which students participate in political protests along with socialists. They make signs, protest against capitalism, and presumably work toward the day when the Bolsheviks take over America. 

Chicago is hardly unique in this approach to what makes government-run education systems so destructive. Teachers around the country are building up a movement to duplicate the curricular shift. 

The goal is simple: to make students as ignorant and pliant as possible, and to form the ground troops for the coming anti-colonial revolution.