Statist Indoctrination Centers

Last night a friend told me that his son came home from school and announced that the swine flu outbreak is caused by our lack of government-run health care. He knows because his 10th grade social studies teacher says so.

So let's get this straight:

Here is what you know if you go to a government-run school:

• Flu outbreaks are caused by not having government health care

And here is what you don't know if you go to a government-run school:

• The Constitution and Bill of Rights
  
• How to locate the United States on a map
• What we can learn from history
  
• How to think critically
• Why the Federalist Papers are important
  
• How to express an idea in a grammatically correct sentence
• The significance of America's Christian heritage
  
• Math

So what makes anyone believe that government would do better with health care than they do with education?