Iowa senator compares preschool to Nazi indoctrination

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Do I even have to bother to mention that he's a Republican? :banghead:

"Political talk about the merits of preschool evolved into a heated debate about Nazi indoctrination today in the Iowa Senate.

Republican Sen. Mark Chelgren said it’s parents’ responsibility to teach young children.

“It is not the role of this government to take that away from families and replace it with an indoctrination process by teachers,” Chelgren, a freshman senator from Ottumwa, said shortly after the Senate gaveled in for the afternoon.

Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal fired back that all the Iowa Legislature’s early childhood programs over the last 25 years were designed to make sure parents are children’s best teachers."

http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/index.php/2011/02/14/iowa-senator-compares-preschool-to-nazi-indoctrination/