In an earlier post, today, I get called to task in the comments by my most excellent friends, Billy Beck and Kyle Bennett, for stating that the indoctrination students receive in public schools (enviro-silliness, fear-mongering, politicized "science", submission to self-appointed "authorities", etc.) is "small potatoes". All of this happens--of course, and unsurprisingly--but is such problem any more serious than any of the other rot we as individualists must endure on a daily basis? Kyle comments: You're right about the inefficiency and low quality of education being driven largely form above, but what I see as destructive is the content of that education - the stuff you call small potatoes. That also is driven from above, but after decades of NEA influence, it has trickled down to the teaching level as well. Either way, it's an argument for privatization: allow parents to choose what will be taught to their children, allow parents to choose schools that will provide quality as cost-effectively as they can, and allow the good teachers to earn what they're worth and have the resources to do the job right. And Billy: The cultural destruction and mutilation wrought at the hands of public schools is so enormous that,...