Santorum: Parents should run schools

Santorum was repeating statements he made in Ohio Saturday where he told a conservative audience that public schools are “anachronistic.” He said public schools go “back to the time of industrialization of America when people came off the farms where they did home-school or have the little neighborhood school, and into these big factories, so we built equal factories called public schools.

“The federal government should not be running schools, frankly much less that the state government should be running schools,” he said Saturday.

This statement goes further than other Republican presidential candidates who have said they want the federal government to pass on the role of funding and running schools to the states.

When pressed by Schieffer, Santorum said, “Local communities and parents should be the ones who are in control of public education.”

Yeah, lets make every public school a home school! “We don’t believe in Evolution or Global Warming, cut it out of the curriculum. Next, we’ll teach the truth behind the war of Northern Aggression!”