John Taylor Gatto: “Our form of compulsory schooling is an invention of the State of Massachusetts around 1850. It was resisted — sometimes with guns — by an estimated eighty percent of the Massachusetts population, the last outpost in Barnstable on Cape Cod not surrendering its children until the 1880s, when the area was seized by militia and children marched to school under guard…”
I was there last week. I saw 13 vicious soccer moms sail through the door into a Podunk school board meeting in an old WW2 PT-Boat and kidnap three glowing angels of mercy from the heavens (board members) and take them away to their Moonshine Militia base in the hills of Tennessee.