[Twoller]

Schools are a problem, but I still disagree that schools are the source of the problem. Children in schools are not, or should not be, passive recepters of information provided to them by teachers. No matter what is being taught in the schools and no matter how ideologically pure it might appear to anyone, parents should always be there and appear to their children as the last word on who to trust in public.

If children growing up to be Marxists is something that starts in the schools, then where were the parents telling their children they don't have to listen to that? Of course some parents are going to approve of indoctrination in schools that other parents don't want to see, like prayer in schools.

The point is that there should be something fundamental to learn that has nothing to do with concepts and ideas that children are really not ready to make decisions about anyway, no matter careful their parents are.

And also the indoctrination of children always starts at home, as long as parents are actually there. If they aren't, then public education is just a baby-sitting service and that is a bigger problem than what is being taught in the classroom.