Lots of Quaker meetings wrote to Nixon ' s asking for them to disavow him because he was a hit of a warmonger . Out in the western part of the US there are some very conservative Quaker meetings that are more like traditional church . Hoover was also a Quaker BTW . He got a lot of shit but he did some good things like fighting hard to provide food aid to Germany after WWI because he believed the citizens shouldn ' t suffer because they lost the war . <| sep |> I ' m afraid that it ' s an ongoing effort to disassemble public education . Some of us started worrying back at Reagan ' s A Nation At Risk . There are a couple of groups that benefit the charter school WeCouldMakeMoneyWithThis folks and the religious far right , who simply want to quash any critical thinkingequitydemocratic processes they can on their way to a theocracy .