[Marxism] How did we get suckered into this?

[Mark Lause]

To clarify this description of school boards as autonomous, I would
suggest that they are really about as autonomous as centralized
standards permit.

For example, a school board that would permit a book in the school
library or a course or a teacher objectionable to the reactionaries
might well find itself facing a ruthless and ongoing onslaught from
above.  A friend of mine was on a local school board that had Kurt
Vonnegut's books in the school library and a relentless right wing
attempt to remove them.  The reactionaries argued for autonomy when it
suited them, but, when the board decided against them, went at the
problem through the state authorities.  In the end, they simply went
into the school library and removed them without the fig leaf of any
legality.

What I'm suggesting here is that the problem is fundamentally
political rather than institutional.

ML