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• Education in America – Part Five

  

  The Child Does Not Belong to the State  A free society must answer certain questions correctly or it will soon answer many others wrongly. One of those questions is this: who bears the first responsibility for the child? The answer is not the school district, the state agency, the licensing body, the union, or the educational theorist.…

  Jonathan Hillmer

  April 2, 2026

  Education, History, On Family, politics

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• Education in America – Part Four

  

  When the Classroom Becomes a Political Stage  A classroom is not a campaign office, a protest rally, or a stage on which adults perform their moral identity before a captive audience of minors. Its first obligation is instruction. That does not mean politics must never be discussed. On the contrary, any serious education in history,…

  Jonathan Hillmer

  March 25, 2026

  Education, History, On Family, politics

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