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Pennsylvania Bishop slams public schools, says Hitler and Mussolini would ‘love our system’

HARRISBURG, PA, January 23, 2012 - In the midst of a raging battle in Pennsylvania over school vouchers, Harrisburg Bishop Joseph McFadden had some tough words about the nation’s public school system.

“In totalitarian governments, they would love our system,” he told an ABC affiliate. “This is what Hitler and Mussolini and all those tried to establish - a monolith so all the children would be educated in one set of beliefs and one way of doing things.”

Bishop McFadden is a longtime advocate of school vouchers, which would enable parents to apply some of their tax money towards a private school education for their children.

The Pennsylvania state legislature voted against a school voucher program this past December, but the Church hierarchy in the state is hoping to keep the issue alive.

“All parents should be allowed to use their tax dollars to send their child to a school of their choice,” Bishop McFadden wrote in an Op-Ed printed in the Patriot-News this past November.

“To say that only public schools have a claim on educational tax dollars or that allowing a monopoly in education is the best way to use these funds flies in the face of the American ideal of freedom of expression and ideas.”

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