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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: TimF who wrote (10429)1/31/2006 7:50:44 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (3) of 541477
 
The public schools are part of government.

I, too, think this is a stretch. You wouldn't say that the government "owns" the military but rather that the military is a governmental function. I don't think you can claim socialism for anything that wouldn't, by default, be privately owned. In this country, schools have always been a governmental function, at least as long as we've had government. Before that it was a community function. In history, schooling has been either a community, government, or church function.

I think you can reasonably argue that it shouldn't be a government function. And I would totally agree that it shouldn't be a federal government function. But I don't think that calling it "socialist" is apt. Call it "collectivist" if you like, but not "socialist." That's just too weird.
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