American Thinker: The Liberal Plot against American Education

American Thinker: The Liberal Plot against American Education: "I am usually skeptical about conspiracy theories, but American education's sorrowful state has increasingly pushed me in that direction. Some background: I've analyzed K-12 schooling for years and observed an odd pattern: We increasingly spend billions to improve it (with much of the increase directed toward uplifting blacks and Hispanics), but progress is miniscule. Setting aside sheer stupidity as an explanation, this blatant wastefulness is a prime candidate for a nefarious 'dark forces' account. But more importantly, if this is indeed something other than stupidity (or the Illuminati, Freemasons, the Tri-Lateral Commission, and the like)...then could it be a 'whodunit'?

My first inclination was to round up the usual suspects: liberals. After all, all the outward signs of the 'crime' point to this familiar culprit. There is the usual hasty fiscal extravagance, a muddle-brained potpourri of unreachable aims, the reflexive expansion of state power, and a commitment to 'progress,' absent boundaries. More telling, there is the signature dependency-for-life outcome where youngsters migrate from one government program to the next. But would this circumstantial evidence warrant a grand jury indictment, let alone a conviction? Harder evidence was required: if not a smoking gun, then at least a theory of the crime (to use some prosecutorial lingo).

A dot-connecting 'eureka' moment occurred when I read a November 29, 2009 New York Times editorial titled 'Over-Punishment in Schools.' In an instant, I now possessed a valuable clue -- an Exhibit A -- to offer the jury to demonstrate how liberals are intentionally destroying American education so as to 'help' minorities."