one thing that the bush and obama administrations have had in common, of course, is that they both favor nationalizing, federalizing, and regulating all american education. essentially, they want to federal government to write the curricula, set the standards for teachers, etc.: they want minute by minute control of every classroom = "accountability." and they deploy only one value, exactly one value: standardization. let's just say that this is a mind-numbingly stupid approach to education, and finally a terrifying accumulation of arbitrary tyrannical power, entirely outside of our form of government. this is one way to see that the tea party is not merely paranoid about increasing federal power. and it's one way to see that re-reading the constitution might be a good idea. at any rate, surely no one could quibble, in a maoist situation like that, with an armed insurrection by schoolchildren. it's gonna have to be children because soon there will be no adults that haven't been processed through the factory of standardized consciousness.

so i'm goin straight to tea party propaganda heaven:

 

and let me just agree, as a short-circuit for your objections, that only a racist would object to universal standardized government education. indeed, only a racist could possibly disagree with you about anything, which must really feel good! fortunately, there are no such things as races.