In the uber Facebook thread that I wrote about last night, another comment came up this morning that I think deserves some attention and another “part 2″ blog post:

Obama’s background isn’t any more radical than McCain’s. And “going around the parents” is what teachers, school administrators, and clergy have been doing for years and years. Why that suddenly translates into a 1984-feeling now is hard to grasp. Don’t go Billy Martin on us!

So the first sentence and the last sentence don’t make sense to me yet, so I’ll let those sit for a while and see if the commenter can clarify a bit for me, but the middle part? Hell yeah.

I tend to disagree when people, usually on the Left, say  that there is no such thing as objective truth, because there quite clearly is: 2+2=4. Napoleon died on May 5, 1821, Elephants eat grass and hay, and the sun literally never set on the British Empire, among other things.

But when it comes to the dissemination of information, there is no such thing as an unbiased educator. This is why Neil Boortz calls them “government schools,” because ANY institution run by politicians is going to be inherently political and why home schooling and private schools will always be with us. Not because home schooling parents are religious jesus freaks or because they’re bad citizens, but because they see the only way to get away from the inherent bias in the public school system is to opt out altogether.