Choice is death sentence for strong supporter of the voucher proposal?

Finn said in “Public Support for Private Edu-

cation” (American Education, May 1982),
private and home education “Short of scattering money in the streets or
handing it out to everyone who wants some,
__________________________________________ the funding agency must define eligible re-
With vouchers, the government will exert cipients… This means in a word, ‘regulation,’
School vouchers to pay for vate schools even more control and manipulation over pri- the inevitable concomitant of public finan-
than it does over public schools. cial support.”
private/religious education The Paris newspaper, LeFigaro, com- Finn also serves on the Governing Board
will dumb down all education mented in 1983 regarding France’s accep- for the National Assessment for Educational
__________________________________________ tance of state funding of its private schools Progress mandated for all schools by Presi-
and subsequent state control: “The proposi- dent Bush. The NAEP is a form of test which
BY CHARLOTTE THOMPSON ISERBYT tions of Education Minister Alain Savery on measures accountability to politically-correct
Times Record Contributor the future of private education are equiva- government viewpoints and workforce be-
lent to a sentence of death.” haviors. The NAEP will determine compli-
The Supreme Court’s recent 5-4 decision The dumbing down of public education ance with accountability standards and there-
(conservatives in the majority) allowing was deliberate, in order to get the private fore will control who receives vouchers. That
vouchers to pay for private/religious educa- sector unwittingly to call for and accept is the reason vouchers will eliminate private
tion will dumb down all education. phony “controlled” school choice proposals education as it is presently constituted.
I can already hear the howling from necessary for the implementation of the __________________________________________
voucher-supporting conservatives when the Carnegie Corporation’s 1934 plan to change
government lands on a private school deny- our economic system from free market to “Whether our new government
ing it the right to determine “what is right collectivist, as spelled out in 1934 in its little form will be corporate fascism,
and what is wrong” related to curriculum, book, “Conclusions and Recommendations
socialism or communism…
testing, hiring procedures, the Pledge of Al- for the Social Studies.”
legiance, etc. This plan was also facilitated by the car-
remains to be seen.”
Is school choice a plot to implement the rying out of the education agreements signed __________________________________________
socialist, corporate fascist, workforce train- by Carnegie and President Regan with the The voucher decision finalizes the ex-
ing agenda for the global planned economy? Soviet Union in 1985. The Soviet polytech change of our highly successful free market
You betcha. system is being implemented right now in system and republican form of government
This decision will carry out the long-stand- the United States with students tracked into for a failed “ism” form of government.
ing internationalist goal of total control of all specific training at an early age and later into Whether our new government form will be
education, public and private, including re- job slots (Soviet quota system) to suit the corporate fascism, socialism or communism
ligious and home school, through the dollar. needs of the corporate fascist global (all of which differ only in minor ways) re-
The late Robert Hutchins, former presi- economy. mains to be seen.
dent of the University of Chicago and a sup- __________________________________________ Karl Marx called for a combination of edu-
porter of world government, would be ec- cation with industrial production.” And the
static over the voucher decision. In an ar- “Obviously, the overriding public global economic system/government being
ticle by Virgil C. Blum in the Common- benefit in this case is government implemented today in the United States does
wealth, Jan. 31, 1964 titled “Freedom and control of all education.” exactly that and is what Lenin called for: In-
Equality” Blum says: __________________________________________ ternational socialism.
“Dr. Robert M. Hutchins sees no consti- Note: Contributions to this article from
tutional difficulty in federal aid for the edu- And conservatives believe the teacher Barbara M. Morris, “Tuition Tax Credits…A
cation of church-related school children in unions do not support choice? The late Albert Responsible Appraisal,” 1983; Billy Lyon,
secular subjects. The benefit that accrues to Shanker, president of the American Federa- “Connections and Conflicts of Interest (Or,
religion, Hutchins argues, is ‘incidental to tion of Teachers, said: “It may be that we There Ought to Be an Investigation!)” 1992;
an overriding public benefit.’” Obviously, the can’t get the big changes we need without and Ann Herzer, public school teacher and
overriding public benefit in this case is gov- choice.” The NEA’s “1975 Cardinal Prin- reading expert.
ernment control of all education. ciples of Education” published in the Sep- —The Times Record • Fri., July 19, 2002 •
Accountability to the government is the is- tember 1976 issue of the NEA journal, Commentary (p.23):
sue. Federal law requires that recipients of Today’s Education. Public school teachers __________________________________________
federal monies conform their activities to are the pawns in this game, unaware in most
federal regulations. cases of what is taking place behind the CHARLOTTE THOMPSON ISERBYT, former se-
In 1982, while working on a U.S. Depart- scenes. nior policy advisor, U.S. Department of Edu-
ment of Education technology grant to the Isn’t it interesting that Chester Finn, a ma- cation, and author of “the deliberated
National Education Association, I found the jor change agent involved in federal educa- dumbing down of america…A Chronologi-
following admission of control over the pub- tion since the late sixties (he wrote America cal Paper Trail,” 1999; 3rd printing, 2001.
lic schools: “Project Design Features: What 2000 for President George Bush Sr.!), was ON THE NET:
We Can Control or Manipulate.” once opposed to school choice but is now a www.deliberatedumingdown.com