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Separating School & State: How To Liberate American Families

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Barbara Peterson

Public schools have been intended to interfere with free development and to mold youth into loyal, compliant servants of the state... It should surprise no one that those schools produce children who are passive, bored, aimless, and even worse: self-destructive and violent. The earliest critics of public schools would not have been surprised.

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Barbara H. Peterson is retired from the California Department of Corrections, where she worked as a Correctional Officer at Folsom Prison. She was one of the first females to work at the facility in this classification. After retirement, she went to (more...)

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