Did you know American public schools were designed by modeling Prussia's system? A system to create mindless masses.

This is the wild story of how we abandoned the classical education that produced our Founding Fathers for a system designed by an authoritarian monarchy.
🧵🔖 Before 1840s America, education was local, often church-based, and rooted in classical liberal arts: grammar, logic, rhetoric. Students read the Bible, Greek/Roman classics, and learned to think independently.
This system produced Jefferson, Adams, Madison, and Hamilton.

🧵 The Sinister Origins of Government-Funded Education - A Thread

What no one is talking about in the School Choice debate - what are you being conditioned to accept next? Most people assume public education was created with noble intentions, but history tells a different story. The roots of government-controlled schooling in America reveal a troubling agenda that had little to do with authentic education.

Principles of computer hacking and school choice bills like SB2.

Hacking has become more sophisticated, and the school choice lobby is using similar principles.

Here is how it works. 🧵 It's very difficult to get malware into a computer system without permission.

So what's a hacker to do?

They create programs that do exactly what you want, often a game or something that seems harmless, like a flashlight app.

But there is a catch...

My wife taught PE in a title 1 school.

One day, the district called every PE teacher in to tell them some news.

They had applied for & won a grant from the federal government.

What happened next would motivate her to homeschool her future children.

🧵 end the depth of ed The Grant was the district had been given Heart Rate monitors in exchange for every student getting a Chromebook.

I'm sure Google execs were thrilled.

The teachers were not.

The kids had to wear these heart rate monitors every day.

What's that entail?

School Choice is about parental choice.

Wong.

That is a naïve narrative.

Read the true, and cautionary tale of Sweden's School Choice reform.

🧵 Case Study A bit of history first.

In 1842, Compulsory education was introduced, & public schooling began. Prior to that, Sweden had a long tradition of privately run schools, funded primarily by student fees.

Sweden’s Conservative government became an early adopter of School Choice.

What does a K12 Classical Education look like?

Classical Conversations students are some of the most sought-after high school graduates.

The image shows the material they will read through graduation.

Check out the thread for a year-by-year breakdown & Bookmark this post. The 7th-grade theme for the year is “Attention Leads to Ownership.”

Students study Math, Latin, Anatomy, Natural Science, Analogies (which have been removed from the SAT), Newberry Lit, and Geography.

The capstone event is the Science Fair.