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The paper argues that the US system has dealt with the aforementioned problem by creating a public school system that embraces as many different cultures as possible via a policy of accommodation; in short, the system earnestly seeks to give private individuals and their families some semblance of choice while pursuing an agenda that satisfies the socialization goals of liberal democracies. The paper discusses how in a real sense, the American education system has institutionalized a multicultural agenda that tries to be all things to all citizens; this approach, vastly complex and unwieldy as it is, is mostly a continuation of a larger social experiment designed to make America more accommodating to minorities, more tolerant of difference, and more truly equalitarian. With all that in mind, the paper discusses and defines the uneasy relationship between the liberal dimension of political liberalism and the liberal democratic demands of political liberalism, briefly looks at how America has dealt with this schism in general, and concludes by exploring the modern-day education system's efforts to privilege tolerance for others in a way that still permits individuals to exercise some autonomy - even if the traditional role of parent has increasingly fallen into the hands of the public school. The paper shows how the American education system is now at a place where it is uneasily straddling the divide between antagonistic interventionist and non-interventionist strains.

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"The following paper will examine the tension between liberalism and democracy in the American education system. Specifically, the paper will argue that the US system has dealt with the aforementioned problem by creating a public school system that embraces as many different cultures as possible via a policy of accommodation; in short, the system earnestly seeks to give private individuals and their families some semblance of choice while pursuing an agenda that satisfies the socialization goals of..."

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