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The Charter school movement is actually a retracement back to the ways schools originally were in America in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

States or in some cases, territories would appropriate funds for a simple administrator (Principal) and allow them to build in small communities the single room schoolhouse that like the church was a cornerstone in the community. The emphasis was on teaching the basic reading, writing, and arithmatic that was vital not only for running the family farms where most children lived, but for being able to work in, and administer offices in the towns.

This all changed when America became more of an urban nation than a rural and cities needed to find ways to educate the millions of immigrant children who would either be forced into 'sweat shops', or be left to run the streets while their parents worked long hours.

The NEA, which is the vital non-public cog of the schools systems went from a union type organization that was dedicated to education in the 1850's, joined with the American Teachers Assoc union in 1966 and that was where everything changed. After this point during our troubling 1960's, the NEA took it upon themselves to not only be a union of teachers in the United States, but to incporporate their agendas and beleifs into the state controlled teaching process.

The father of this organization, is of course John Dewey, who was a Humanist and advocated that there is no God, and that everything other than logic and reason should be removed from school environments. This has led to an institution with very little moral absolutes, and a focus on teaching secular humanistic agendas rather than education in the ways of the 3 R's.

The states are partially to blame allowing a private union of teachers to dictate school learning and policies, and this was where the people started to strike back in establishing the Charter system, and political change to a voucher system of funding. It all stems around choice for the families and individuals, and not having to fall prey to the agendas of an organization who do not have the best interests of students in mind.

Joseph Stalin advocated in the 1920's that we cannot change the minds of adults, but get one generation of children under our tutilage and they will turn from their parents and be good workers for the state. Adolph Hitler created the Nazi Youth with the same philosophy, and this has been seen today.

In 1969, the NEA created a pamphlet called, "Education for the 70's' in which they said teachers will become psychiatrists and we will use drugs such as Ritalin on children to focus their memories and learning habits. The NEA and leading secular humanists have also advocated getting children away from their parents as early as 18 months to start indoctrinating them in the ways of their agendas, and not the ways the parents would like.

The Charter schools have been a very important niche in American education, and this is shown by the fact that learning levels for children far exceed those of public schools, and test scores are far higher as well. Until we get a voucher system instituted, and the states take back their control over education and not leave it to an agenda based union of teachers with nefarious plans in mind, most people will not be able to afford a good education for their children that they might get in the Charter schools...

And we will continue to have 40% illiteracy in adults in America.

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