Sporadically picking through the sources in John Taylor Gatto’s Weapons of Mass Instruction.
Could Professor Arthur W. Calhoun really have gotten away with publicly advocating for children to pass from blood families “into the custody of community experts” all the way back in 1919? Here’s some of what he said in his A Social History of the Family from Colonial Times to the Present:
The Sinister Summary:
Problem: Modernization in industrial and social life (allowing women to work alongside men in factories) has made it impossible for parents to successfully perform their parental functions.
Not the Solution #1: Encourage parents to find an independent livelihood outside of the factory/corporate system that would provide them with the time and resources to raise their own children.
Not the Solution #2: Ease restrictions on small businesses.
Solution: Allow qualified community experts to perform the complexer functions of parenthood.
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