Harmer: Abolish Public Schools

Tea Party Frontrunner: Abolish Public Schools

It's fairly common for conservative political candidates to support eliminating the federal Department of Education. But in California, tea party darling and congressional candidate David Harmer has gone further. He's advocated eliminating public schools entirely and returning education to "the way things worked through the first century of American nationhood," when educational opportunities for poor people, African-Americans, women, the disabled, and others were, to say the least, extremely limited.

http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/10/david-harmer-abolish-public-schools