Here's some links & information that is quite shocking when we realize that the every day American sends their children to the Public Schools.  The current system in place has been going on for almost 100 years. The content of the links below sends a clear warning  about where we're headed. What is the solution?

How were the colonists eduated, and what was specific bout their education that prepared them to be the right people at the time to work out a system of government that protected the citizens from their own Government and protected their Freedoms? 

Radio Interview with Charlotte Charlotte Iserbyt
Video of Charlotte Iserbyt
Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI),
U.S. Department of Education under President Ronald Regan

John Taylor Gatto
Against School
  The Underground History of Education in America
State Controlled Consciousness

Ben Stein
The Education Crisis in America

Jay Leno
JayWalking - US History?

Kitty Werthmann
How Austria Lost its Freedom in 5 years
describes the radical change in education at that time

Cascade Policy Institute
Oregon Drop-out Rate Costs State $400 Million Annually