Santorum Flunk Home Schooling { Now Wonder He Sounds So Stupid}


 The poorly educated candidate says U.S. presidents taught their kids at home for 150 years. He's wrong

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  •   Republican presidential candidate Santorum
Rick Santorum  (Credit: Jason Reed / Reuters)
At the Republican debate Wednesday night, Rick Santorum repeated a claim he’s been making, that the federal government, and the state governments, should “get out of the education business.” Last weekend, Santorum declared public education “anachronistic.” If elected, he would home-school his children in the White House, just like – he claimed – most presidents did in the first 150 years of our national life.
“Where did they come up that public education and bigger education bureaucracies was the rule in America?” he asked. “Parents educated their children, because it’s their responsibility to educate their children.” The presidential candidate suggested that America should look to its 19th-century educational system to prepare this generation to meet 21st-century problems.
   





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