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Not every public school is as bad as the one(s) you went to.

• maxharris 16y ago
  True, but that's not the point. The reason my school was so bad was that it was a public school. (See my other post for more on this.) Some of the better public schools might survive as private schools when the budget woes force change along (hopefully not long from now), but everyone would be better served if the bad ones (such as mine) were to close their doors. (This is why the public-sector unions have to go. Even if you agree with me, you're probably thinking, "but the unions wouldn't hear of it!") As for any accusations that this runs counter to some egalitarian principle, I don't agree. Michael Faraday had no formal education, yet he rose to astounding heights in science. We are crushing the many would-be Faradays of our own time, while simultaneously wrecking our public budgets. I know it's a minority position to call this out, but I sincerely hope that it won't be that way much longer.