If you want to go back 100 years, public schools were created by the Rockefeller family. They were designed to take children away from their parents after harvest season so they could be taught memorization and repetition, the goal was to educate children enough to work in industrial factories. They were never designed to produce entrepreneurs and leaders, just factory workers and wage earners. This was a two prong attack against rural families to get them to give up living off of the land for hopes of the Big City life and the promise of upward mobility.
Different model of schools the system that became implemented here was based on the Prussian model that was designed for what was described. Schooling in America prior in the time you described was not govt controlled .
I'm not mental, just more educated on the history of modern K-12 schooling in the US. Obviously different forms of school have been around since time immemorial. We are talking about the usurpation of the modern school era of today, not Plato. In the early 20th century both the Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundations were donating large sums of money to education and the social sciences. They supported, in particular, the National Education Association. By way of grants, they spent millions of dollars, money which was used to radically bend the traditionalist education system toward a new system that favored standardized testing over critical thinking, toward “scientific management” in schools. This was part of a calculated plan to make the schooling system benefit corporate America, at the expense of the American school child.
Since America's public school system was decentralized, the foundations had concentrated on influencing schools of education (particularly Columbia, the spawning ground for Deweyism), and on financing the writing of textbooks which were subsequently adopted nationwide. These foundaton-produced textbooks were heavily slanted in favor of socialism. The NEA was directed by way of grants amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars, responsible for the nationwide acceptance of avowed socialist John Dewey's theories of 'progressive' education and permissiveness -the products of which have been marching on our college campuses for the past six decades.
You and your father were lucky. I grew up in the Bay Area in the 80's and they were full blown America Haters. Luckily for me, my entire family were Active Duty or former Military so the brain wash didn't work on me. You're correct about the trickle down effect but it also just depends on the school district and their willingness to indoctrinate the youth into Leftest Ideologies. No state or county is a monolith.
If you want to go back 100 years, public schools were created by the Rockefeller family. They were designed to take children away from their parents after harvest season so they could be taught memorization and repetition, the goal was to educate children enough to work in industrial factories. They were never designed to produce entrepreneurs and leaders, just factory workers and wage earners. This was a two prong attack against rural families to get them to give up living off of the land for hopes of the Big City life and the promise of upward mobility.
Different model of schools the system that became implemented here was based on the Prussian model that was designed for what was described. Schooling in America prior in the time you described was not govt controlled .
Many more private schools / tutors back then. Much less state control.
There is no need for state run schools. Fuck the state.
I'm not mental, just more educated on the history of modern K-12 schooling in the US. Obviously different forms of school have been around since time immemorial. We are talking about the usurpation of the modern school era of today, not Plato. In the early 20th century both the Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundations were donating large sums of money to education and the social sciences. They supported, in particular, the National Education Association. By way of grants, they spent millions of dollars, money which was used to radically bend the traditionalist education system toward a new system that favored standardized testing over critical thinking, toward “scientific management” in schools. This was part of a calculated plan to make the schooling system benefit corporate America, at the expense of the American school child.
Since America's public school system was decentralized, the foundations had concentrated on influencing schools of education (particularly Columbia, the spawning ground for Deweyism), and on financing the writing of textbooks which were subsequently adopted nationwide. These foundaton-produced textbooks were heavily slanted in favor of socialism. The NEA was directed by way of grants amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars, responsible for the nationwide acceptance of avowed socialist John Dewey's theories of 'progressive' education and permissiveness -the products of which have been marching on our college campuses for the past six decades.
You and your father were lucky. I grew up in the Bay Area in the 80's and they were full blown America Haters. Luckily for me, my entire family were Active Duty or former Military so the brain wash didn't work on me. You're correct about the trickle down effect but it also just depends on the school district and their willingness to indoctrinate the youth into Leftest Ideologies. No state or county is a monolith.