IIRC our public school system was modeled after the Prussian one designed to create an obedient workforce that knows just enough to be useful to the state, it's not so much been coopted as adapted to the times
Which isn't to say the concept of public schooling is bad, just that, like most of its institutions, America's version is rotten to the core and needs to be scrapped and rebuilt
I mean public schooling does seem kinda commie now that you mention it.
Though our school systems are currently being co-opted for fascist propaganda for capital's and nationalism's sakes
IIRC our public school system was modeled after the Prussian one designed to create an obedient workforce that knows just enough to be useful to the state, it's not so much been coopted as adapted to the times
Which isn't to say the concept of public schooling is bad, just that, like most of its institutions, America's version is rotten to the core and needs to be scrapped and rebuilt