American Samizdat

Monday, March 08, 2004. *
Look! A farm system for far right ideologues!
 
About half a million families around the country home-school their children, and about two-thirds of these identify themselves as evangelical Christians. The four-year old Patrick Henry College was founded by Michael Farris of the founder of the Home School Legal Defense Association specifically to provide a college education to this latter group. About two-thirds of it's students major in government, and the school has been very successful in placing interns in both the White House and Congress.
That is an alarming prospect to some on the left.

"Mike Farris is trying to train young people to get on a very right-wing political agenda," said Nancy Keenan, the education policy director at People for the American Way, a liberal advocacy group, and a former Montana state superintendent of public education. The number of Patrick Henry interns in the White House "scares me to death," she said. "It tells us a little bit more about the White House than it does about the kids."

Didn't Hitler do something like this?
posted by Mischa Peyton at 6:08 PM
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