Family Taxpayers Foundation

‘Loyalty to the State’

The California court decision that essentially bans homeschooling has sparked a lot of concern, and rightly so.The decision quotes this revealing and chilling statement from a California court case in 1961:

A primary purpose of the educational system is to train school children in good citizenship, patriotism and loyalty to the state and the nation as a means of protecting the public welfare.

Seldom do the defenders of the government education monopoly reveal in such forthright language the true purpose of their position; they are training children to be loyal subjects of the state, not free citizens of a republic.

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Posted here March 10, 2008.