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January 18, 2010
Guardian Moonbat Advocates Total Ban on Private Education
Posted by Dave Blount at January 18, 2010 11:48 AM
According to liberals, freedom is oppressive — so this quote from The Guardian's Kevin McKenna should surprise no one:
The ultimate iniquity … is that independent, fee-paying schools are allowed to exist at all.
Not only should everyone be forced to pay for the leftist propaganda served up in place of learning in failed public schools; everyone must be forced to attend. The emphasis on the slowest and least motivated exemplified by the slogan "No child left behind" is bad enough. But what moonbats really want is "No child allowed to escape." This is why Comrade Obama is killing the phenomenally successful voucher program in DC, which is infamous for having among the worst public schools in the country.
David Thompson comment's on McKenna's blatherings:
It offends Mr McKenna that private education should be allowed to exist. How dare some parents want the best for their children when the best is something not everyone can have, or indeed benefit from? Notice that smell? It's the funk of socialist arrogance and nasty urges to control. By Mr McKenna's reckoning, it would be less iniquitous to deny parents the right to use their own money to benefit their own offspring in a private and legal transaction of their own choosing. According to this moral calculus, parents who view the comprehensive system as inadequate — perhaps because of their own first-hand experiences — are by implication wicked. And so they should be stopped. Sadly, the details of how private education would no longer be permitted remain mysterious. Would parents daring to venture outside the state sector be imprisoned or merely fined? Would private education become a black market phenomenon? Nor is it clear whether these totalitarian urges would extend to after-hours tuition, home coaching or the punctual doing of homework.
Despite McKenna's totalitarian daydreams, private education will never be totally eradicated. After all, our socialist rulers need a place to send their own kids.
