There is a lot of unease floating through today’s conversations. One set of young parents is worrying how to opt their children out of morally repugnant vaccines. A pharmacist complains that he feels bullied “by the system” to provide dangerous products. A casual comment provokes the small business owner to grumble about being lost in bureaucratic quagmires. A neighbor rails at the homeowner association, “What do you mean I can’t have chickens in my own backyard?” And the educator pulls out a teacher’s manual for first grade curriculum in writing that “you can see is teaching first graders how be little political activists.” There’s a mounting sense that we are being herded into corrals where we would rather not be.
Steve Kellmeyer’s Designed to Fail: Catholic Education in America defines one of those corrals – namely the modern phenomenon of compulsory education for increasingly young children and older students. Parents who had hoped the parochial system might provide a haven from government schools will be sorely disappointed. (more...)
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