Santorum Declares Preschool a Scheme to “Indoctrinate Your Children”

Jordan Rohde — August 3, 2011 – 5:29 pm | Education | Election 2012 | GOP Presidential Candidates 2012 | Republicans Comments (3) Add a comment

In the latest display of extreme ideas emanating from the Republican Party, former Senator Rick Santorum went on a tirade against preschool. While campaigning in Iowa, he called early education an effort to “indoctrinate your children” and argued that the government has no place in education.

Santorum said:

It is a parent’s responsibility to educate their children. It is not the government’s job. We have sort of lost focus here a little bit. Of course, the government wants their hands on your children as fast as they can. That is why I opposed all these early starts and pre-early starts, and early-early starts. They want your children from the womb so they can indoctrinate your children as to what they want them to be. I am against that.

Santorum added that the federal government does not need to be involved in the education system. He said:

We need to get the federal government out of [education]. We need a leader in Washington to start talking with the states and the communities to rally parents to demand that the educational establishment in this country start meeting the needs of their child, not children. See, that is the difference. Obviously, socialists love children, just like they love people in groups of one million or more.

This conspiracy-laden outburst from Santorum illustrates that he simply cannot be trusted to defend the programs that most American Jews support. It also further demonstrates that today’s Republican Party is out of touch with the vast majority of American Jews. 

 

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