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You are comparing apples with oranges. I said competition is good because we are talking about blogging space. Imagine if there was only one blogging platform

by u48998 16y ago

You are comparing apples with oranges. I said competition is good because we are talking about blogging space. Imagine if there was only one blogging platform. It would not be a nice situation. So Wordpress and Blogger both developing actively is a good thing for the rest of us. It would be best if more blogging platforms could jump in and improve the space (not that there aren't others already). Back to education and government. You are already blaming your paying taxes as a culprit for you attending bad government school. What proof do you have to back up your allegation? What if there was no public school and less government taxes and still no private school to provide you education? Do you think private schools are only going to crop up because government isn't charging more taxes? What guarantee is there that you'd have a good private school in the absence of any public school? Blaming taxes for all the ills of the government is a myth propagated by one of the political party. Check out the countries where there are no government schools of any quality (because people don't pay taxes and things are pretty much messed up all around). You'd be glad you attended public school in America irrespective of the quality compared to many other countries of the world.

maxharris 16y ago
What proof do you have to back up your allegation? I served 11.5 years in a government school (not the customary 13 because I was able to graduate early). My time there was awful. I would have learned more just by staying at home! Government school didn't even help with getting into college. I had a D average in high school, so I privately educated myself for a few years in all kinds of ways, and got into a very nice university (and maintained a 3.89 gpa in a science major). So that's how I know government school is useless. On top of that, my mother was a government school teacher. The horror stories she has about the way they run things are awful. This was all in the the strongest teacher's union state in the country (WI), which made the problem even worse. (When teachers want to set up a system to rate each other so that better teachers earn more money, the union throws such a fit that the plan never gets heard. When teachers want to teach foreign languages before or after school, the government school administrators throw a fit and shut it all down. This could not happen at a private school.)

by u48998 16y ago

maxharris 16y ago

What proof do you have to back up your allegation? I served 11.5 years in a government school (not the customary 13 because I was able to graduate early). My time there was awful. I would have learned more just by staying at home! Government school didn't even help with getting into college. I had a D average in high school, so I privately educated myself for a few years in all kinds of ways, and got into a very nice university (and maintained a 3.89 gpa in a science major). So that's how I know government school is useless. On top of that, my mother was a government school teacher. The horror stories she has about the way they run things are awful. This was all in the the strongest teacher's union state in the country (WI), which made the problem even worse. (When teachers want to set up a system to rate each other so that better teachers earn more money, the union throws such a fit that the plan never gets heard. When teachers want to teach foreign languages before or after school, the government school administrators throw a fit and shut it all down. This could not happen at a private school.)