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Public Schools are a Jobs Program for Useless Adults

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Children do not learn in school; they are babysat. It takes maybe 50 hours to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic. After that, students can teach themselves. Mainly what school does is to keep the children off the streets and out of the job market. - John Taylor Gatto

I seem to remember another quote from Gatto calling public schools, “a jobs program …

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