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Tea Party Candidate David Harmer Wants to Abolish Public Schools

Tea Party Candidate David Harmer Wants to Abolish Public Schools

Tea Party Candidate: Abolish All Public Schools

Updated: 10 minutes ago
David Knowles

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(Oct. 14) -- School's out ... forever?

Tea Party candidate David Harmer, who is running as a Republican for the U.S. House of Representatives in California's 11th District, thinks the nation's public education system should more closely resemble the way it looked in 1825. In other words, Harmer would abolish public schools altogether.

In an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle in 2000, Harmer wrote the following:
To attain quantum leaps in educational quality and opportunity, however, we need