Up-dated: 2-17-12:

You-Tube pulled the Debbie Squires video I had originally included in this post – some kerfuffle over MGTV (Michigan Government TV) rights. Here’s a bit longer version – same message: Government knows best.

Original 2-14-12 post:

 
Remember that old TV show from the early 60’s? Do you still think “father” – and mother – know what’s best for Junior? Congratulations! You haven’t been marching in lockstep with the Progressive agenda.
Some educators feel you’re seriously misguided though. See, they believe that THEY are the people who “know best how to serve your children.”
 
Get a load of Debbie Squires, associate director of the Michigan Elementary and Middle School Principals Association, telling members of the Michigan House Education Committee last week why she and her cohorts are opposed to allowing more cyber (or online) schools to operate in the state ~
 

[Source: Big Government]
 

“Educators go through education for a reason,” Squires said. “They are the people who know best about how to serve children. That’s not necessarily true of an individual resident. I’m not saying they don’t want the best for their children, but they may not know what actually is best from an education standpoint.”

Gee Deb, you’re in awesome company! That’s precisely what totalitarians of all stripes believe too. While you were going “through education” you must have skipped a few history lessons. Here’s a refresher course from Bishop Joseph McFadden, of Harrisburg, PA ~

From a Jan. 24th interview WHTM-TV (ABC affiliate) via CNS News:

“In the totalitarian government, they would love our system,” McFadden said. “This is what Hitler and Mussolini and all them tried to establish — a monolith; so all the children would be educated in one set of beliefs and one way of doing things.”
 
“I used the example of the dictators merely to explain how an absolute monopoly in education, where parents do not have a right or ability to choose the education that best suits their children due to economic circumstances or otherwise, runs counter to a free and open society,” he said.
 
“Our support of a school voucher program has the goal of giving parents something that dictators never would, a choice in which school their children attend by being able to control the portion of the tax dollars that is designated for the education of each child.”

 
Here’s a fine example of Squire’s educators-know-best philosophy right here in her home state (- and mine unfortunately!) of Michigan:
 
Elementary Students Forced to Write Advocacy Letters to Governor Criticizing Education Cuts ~

Third through fifth graders at an elementary school in the Walled Lake Consolidated School District were assigned by at least one teacher this week to write letters to Gov. Rick Snyder saying how unhappy they were with his budget cuts, the school district confirmed Thursday.
 
The students were told the best letters would be forwarded to the governor. One parent said the teachers prepped the students with what the budget cuts entailed because some weren’t aware. Students also were asked to speak in front of their classmates about why they didn’t like the budget cuts.

 
Hey kids! Can you spell “I N D O C T R I N A T I O N?”
 
A new book from Kyle Olson, “Indoctrination: How Useful Idiots’ Are Using Our Schools to Subvert American Exceptionalism,” explains how 7- and 8-year-olds are taught to embrace an atheistic, leftist philosophy virtually from the moment they enter school ~
 

[Source: Education Action Group Foundation]
 
Ah Ms. Squires … pardon me for pointing out the fact that the reality exposes your deceit. Turns out that what some educators are really “best” at is churning out little collectivist drones.

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Related:
Pa. Bishop Does Not Recant Saying that Hitler And Mussolini “Would Love Our (Public School) System”
At Cayuga Elementary in Philadelphia ~ Principal encouraged cheating, staffers say ~ Is cheating “best?”
Reforming Schools ~ Real “change” for the better
PublicSchoolSpending.com ~ Shining the a light into the black hole of school spending.