The government school system in the US is the sorting and indoctrinating arm of the state. It was conceived as a way to insure a steady supply of uniform workers for the industrial economy by Rockefeller, Carnegie, JP Morgan, and other "stakeholders" (I hate that word and idea). It is now primarily used to indoctrinate the population into socialism and environmentalist dogma. This is researched and proven by people like former N.Y. Teacher of the year John Taylor Gatto and Charlotte Iserbyt who worked in the Reagan Dept. of Ed. (she has documentation). Samuel Blumenfeld has written a dynamite book Called "NEA: Trojan Horse in American Education" that explains how the early school designers headed by humanist John Dewey (who, BTW, spoke of the need to convert the population to the RELIGION of humanism in the schools) used animal training research (the hierarchy of needs such as acceptance; bells, age segregation, peer pressure) and psy-ops on American children to mold the population into dumbed down obedient fearful sheep who demand leaders and experts who tell them what to do and think. Government schooling is probably the greatest atrocity committed against humanity in history. There is a reason most folks can't even read the Constitution, much less know what's in it. IT IS BY DESIGN. I won't even go into the Marxist platform of the NEA, friend of the good Rev. Huckabee. If you value liberty get your kids OUT of the govschools yesterday!!!