Public education! Ain’t it the berries?
The abuses of public education that we suffer and take for granted today, were not tolerated once upon a time–as late as the 1970s. They never, never, never would have been able to do these things to us… once upon a time.
Yes, there was a time when communities owned the schools that they paid for. There was no State Dept. of Education. Nor any federal Dept. of Education. Holy moly, there was freedom! And the people who had it vigorously defended it.
I was there; I saw it. I was a reporter; I reported it.
But I still don’t understand what happened to it.