State education is indoctrination

First I want to try to refute some some of OreEle's points, but after that I want to move forward with this subject and shows how it interrelates with other subjects and maybe come to some consensus. "Between AFT [2] and NEA [3], the public schools are almost entirely run by the various teacher's unions[4]. And since 1914, unions haven't exactly gone hand in hand with big business[5][6]. " The public schools aren't actually run by the unions (a reaction of workers who group together try to resist state or private exploitation), there influence is minimal and mainly extends to teachers rights such as higher pay and less constraint from the curriculum. All they really do is rally up the teachers and go on strike for a week once every couple years, but the influence on the state education system is marginal. The main reason for this is because the "education" system is run from the top down, centrally planned and run, where the politicians and the business make decisions the are rammed down the system to the teachers and students. Decision making is being made by people who are not affected by there decisions. By thinking that unions control the "education" system it is obvious to see why he would think that big business is not involved. Business men lobbied the state for kindergarten, abolished local control, have disproportionate power on school boards. "A steadily lengthening school year led to an extended career ladder, specialization, and a credential-oriented society. School people were assigned the role of bringing about a conflict-free world by teaching indirectly that the preemption of work by corporations and professions (later by government) was right, proper, and "scientific. " Also attitude and the curriculum was set to fit business interests. The grading system sickeningly reflects the racist ideologies was set up to reflect the evolutionary hierarchy. So that business men could select the most indoctrinated students who where rewarded by gaining privilege higher up in the hierarchy while the students with lower grades were dumped out into the working class. Once we look at the history of public education which started in Prussia and was viewed highly by business men and politicians. They modeled the American "education" system off the Prussians that had used it to increase the military power and create a failed Utopian society, and was used to mold students into servants of the private sector working efficiently for corporations. Why should we accept these institutions who force us into these giant dull buildings. Are we not even aloud to question the system that takes a third of are day away from us. Destroying are creativity and freedom to be shaped into another cog in the capitalist machine for there ends not are own desire. Giving us lots of mocking assingments and straining tests which have no relevance with our lives. Putting a grade on are intelligence and acting like education is merely a game that can be calculated with a number. Putting us with strangers who yell at us and no nothing about us. Having us run from classroom to classroom like a worker in a office filing and taking orders. Filling us with data which that barely goes through are heads and then are expected to spew back the repetitive data onto a test, then criticized for not writing out the data properly. Told that we need to do this to get are desired dream jobs, instead being givern mindless repetetive jobs and at the most if your lucky an 8 hour desk job which is unhealthy and destructive to the human psyche. Family's are being broken apart from this work it is hard to make meaningful friends when most of the people you see in your day are merely artificial contacts who work with you but do not care for you, rather compete against you. We have been lied to by institutions that care nothing for us, deceived by false promises that have led to failures. History stores many things but has the power to refute the prevailing beliefs, ideologies, and intuitions. . http://www.youtube.com... . http://www.youtube.com... . http://www.youtube.com... . http://www.spinninglobe.net... . http://www.johntaylorgatto.com... . http://en.wikipedia.org... . http://en.wikipedia.org... . http://en.wikipedia.org... . http://en.wikipedia.org...