Puh-leeze, Mr. Santorum, early education a socialist plot? My kindergarten teaching friends have bought into a nefarious plot to indoctrinate kids into a socialist ideal? Sponge Bob Square Pants has become part of the conspiracy?
How long will you play to the lowest common denominator, the fears of humans, to demonize thoe they have elected if those not share your delusions?
[Perry, Ia. – Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum criticized early education programs on Tuesday as an effort to “indoctrinate your children,” adding that parents, not federal bureaucrats, must be responsible for the success of students.
During a town hall meeting attended by about 20 people at the Perry Public Library, the Pennsylvania Republican said Americans should demand that the educational establishment start meeting the needs of their children as individuals.
He said that if business people wanted to establish an educational system from scratch they would provide a product that was appealing to parents, and to some degree, to children, to maximize what parents wanted their children to be taught. But that isn’t happening, he said.
“It is a parent’s responsibility to educate their children. It is not the government’s job. We have sort of lost focus here a little bit. Of course, the government wants their hands on your children as fast as they can. That is why I opposed all these early starts and pre-early starts, and early-early starts. They want your children from the womb so they can indoctrinate your children as to what they want them to be. I am against that,” he said.]
http://caucuses.desmoinesregister.com/2011/08/02/santrorum-calls-early-education-programs-an-effort-to-indoctrinate-your-children/
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