teachers and others..tell me what you think about THIS ("underground teaching")

one of the right-wing righteous women forwarded this to me.Have you seen it?What is your take on it?

http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/index.htm

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We hope to revitalize grassroots democracy by presenting a lively menu of successful working alternatives to government factory schools—some public, some private, some parochial, and some personal. We intend to work toward legislative reforms that return school tax money to citizens' hands, where it can be spent to restore meaning to school choice by enlarging the range of available alternatives. We do not ask for an end to government schools, only that they be forced to compete. Free market choice will improve government schools, too.

And a world view that I can not support.

His arguments have an emotional appeal and often "feel" right, but are short on reliable evidence to support them. Especially his overall conclusion that public school systems exist as a conspiracy to "dumb down" the public into something analogous to obedient worker bees. Some of what he writes is accurate, and there are cases where advocates for public education have done so for less than magnanimous reasons. But he's sloppy with his sources and analysis of the same. Gatto doesn't apologize for this, either. He's called his research "intuitive" rather than scholarly, which should give pause to anyone who takes his arguments seriously, or wants to.

And that's really the point. If someone really likes Gatto, its likely because they are already biased towards his line of thinking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivism_(Ayn_Rand)