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Populist Reform of the Democratic Party

merrily

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5. And charter schools will dumb down America even more.

Reply to demwing (Reply #3)

Sat Jul 4, 2015, 04:41 AM

Jul 2015

As will Texas, which basically controls the content of textbooks.

As will the evangelical revisionist version of the founding of this country, which makes its way into schools.

The less we know, the more bad info we have, the easier it is for the plutocracy/plutonomy to control us.

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Unfortunately Americans are ignorant of our own history demwing Jul 2015 #3

And charter schools will dumb down America even more. merrily Jul 2015 #5

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