Why America still needs public schools
5th June 2026
The Conversation, a Voice of the Crust.
While the White House’s fight with elite universities such as Columbia and Harvard has recently dominated the headlines, the feud overshadows the broader and more far-reaching assault on K-12 public education by the Trump administration and many states.
‘Public’ eduction means eduction paid for by taxpayer dollars. Any obstruction to shoveling more and more taxpayer dollars to ‘public’ education is, therefore, and ‘assault on public education’. Especially any effort to reform or improve ‘public education’ that involves doing something other than the way we’ve always done it is part of that ‘assault’.
The immediate reference to a book entitled How Government Built America clues you into the inherent statism of these professional bureaucrats.
“All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.” — Benito Mussolini