I read this last night and it sent shivers down my spine – prophetic!

[freshwest]

29. That's your and my fortunate situation. Children in areas that turned education over to corporate or

religious based schools would punish your child for speaking against the way they are seeking to structure society.

Examples of this are:

Louisiana's bold bid to privatize schools

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014134247

Louisiana to give $700K to schools run by a "prophet" who also runs a school for "prophets"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021094886

BACKFIRED: Louisiana GOP Angry That Muslims Can Use School Vouchers

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002904834

That's just what I found at first search here at DU on one state only, but this is nation wide. And the reputation that some religious schools have had for turning out well-rounded scholars, is no longer the case.

Ann Romney called for all public schools to be closed, that all children should be in religious schools. This has been a constant chorus for twenty years or more, with aversion to emigrants and minorities of all kinds. It was abetted by well-funded campaigns by those who sought to break the power of secular and progressive ideas. In doing so, they gained the power of media and promulgated many lies about what goes on in public schools.

They are getting bolder, now taking public infrastructure and not paying for it, and building their own little fiefdoms where none can say nay. I applaud your work with your daughter, but the state of education in part of this country is just as bad if not worse, than Carl Sagan predicted, and they are pushing into all the arenas of public infrastructure with libertarian ideology and religious dogma.

We had a moment in time, and have been and are being, pulled back to the darkness of superstition and stupidity. With Obama in office stressing education and trying to fund more teachers and public works, being resisted by those who already profit from privatization, we're in danger here. I do not imply that we will fail in our work to save what so many have worked for so hard and for so many years.



Enjoyed chatting with you.