“A core component of the U.S. CVE plan tasks teachers, social workers, and school administrators with monitoring and reporting to law enforcement on children in their care. An FBI document released earlier this year tells teachers to spy on their students’ thoughts and suggests that administrators essentially turn schools into mini-FBI offices.”
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“Actor Matt Damon — who was one of the President’s earliest and best-known celebrity supporters during his 2008 campaign—said point blank that he was unhappy with the way the country is being run in an interview with Piers Morgan last night. He also slammed the President for failing to follow through on many of his campaign promises, particularly on education…”
“As education historian E. G. West noted, it did not take laws to achieve virtually universal education in the nineteenth century (among the free population). But it did take laws to give us schools that function like indoctrination centers, preaching the glory of government while preparing children to be quiescent taxpaying citizens who will take their place in industry, the bureaucracy, or the military.”
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