Should the government be pulled out of the education system? Why or Why not?

http://www.schoolandstate.org/case.htm

Proud to be an American Liberal!

What makes you think the educational level of the Colonies was low? Textbooks?

Not totally, you need some kind of regulation. Otherwise you'd get wacko's with their own schools producing little wacko disciples. I do think that the government should take a couple steps back and maybe reduce the importance of the standardized tests.

I think your site answers the question itself. " For more than 220 years - from the 1620s to the 1840s - most American schooling was independent of government control, subsidy, and influence. From this educational freedom the American Republic was born." Literacy rates in colonial America were horrible. Yes, you may say that literacy rates for white males were higher, but if you factor in women and minorities the literacy rate stands at about 30%. Compared to todays average of 95%, I think we are way better off.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_ra...

That doesn't make any sense, the government has pulled the religious factor from schools, so they can't influence their religious and moral beliefs. Do you even understand what you are saying? Do you even understand the public school system? Literacy should have everything to do with it. Otherwise, we would create an even greater aristocratic society than we already have. All I have to say is look at everything else that has been privatized, like the prison system in some states. Your view is a completely facist view on education. In case you were educated in the public school system as you recognize it, that is the same ideology as Hitler.

I hate to judge, but it seems to me by your avatar that you are a woman. Under your proposed way it was, you wouldn't have even received an education. And again literacy rates in colonial times were based on only men, women and minorities were not considered or educated for that matter.