The Underground History of American Education?

The author is Frank Taylor Gatto, former New York City and New York State teacher of the year.

Here is a qoute:

"During the boom economy of the 1980s and 1990s, purchasing power rose for 20 percent of the population and actually declined 13 percent for the other four-fifths.  Indeed, after inflation was factored in, purchasing power of a working couple in 1995 was only eight percent greater than for a single working man in 1905; this steep decline in common prosperity over 90 years forced both parents from home and deposited kids in the management systems of daycare, extended schooling, and commercial entertainment.  Despite the century-long harangue that schooling was the cure for unevenly spread wealth, exactly the reverse occurred--wealth was 250 percent more concentrated at century's end than at it's beginning.
    I don't mean to be inflamatory, but it's as if government schooling made people dumber, not brighter; made families weaker, not stronger; ruined formal religion with its hard-sell exlusion of God, set the class structure in stone by dividing children into classes and setting them against one another, and has been midwife to an alarming concentration of wealth and power in the hadnds of a fraction of the national community."

All responses welcome.