the title of this, the real purpose of public schooling, tells you much of what you will be made aware of, should you not be as of now;


Leave it to the Chinese Communist Party and the New York Times to indirectly teach Americans about public schooling. In an article entitled “The High School Course Beijing Accuses of Radicalizing Hong Kong,” the Times writes:

China’s ruling Communist Party has long seen education as a crucial ideological tool for nurturing loyal citizens. Under Xi Jinping, the country’s authoritarian leader, the party has ramped up patriotic education on the mainland, helping shape one of the nationalist generations of youth that the country has seen in years…. In recent months, officials in Beijing have repeatedly stressed the need for stronger patriotic education in Hong Kong.

What the Times and U.S. government officials will never admit is that that is precisely the purpose of public (i.e., government) schooling here in the United States – to produce good, little citizens who are “patriotic,” loyal to the state, defer to their political rulers, and blindly support important decisions made by U.S. officials, especially with respect to foreign affairs.
And who can dispute that the public schooling system here in the United States has been just as successful in achieving its goal as Chinese officials have been in mainland China? With its mandatory-attendance laws and government-approved textbooks and curriculum, and its army-lite system of regimentation and control, the U.S. public-school system has produced a nation of people whose love of country is measured by their unwavering and loyal support of the government’s troops, who they never hesitate to thank for their “service,” regardless of what that “service” happens to be..........https://www.fff.org/2019/09/03/the-real-purpose-of-public-schooling/