[KC_Lion]

What American Schools have become is a Prussian Prison where your kids are raised by the state.

Where Achievement is punished and ridiculed by a apathetic student body and the whole point of the education is to produce barley functioning students so they are more easily swayed to a certain point of view.

That the state is the provider.

That is why all the talk about School Breakfast, School Dinner, make the school day longer.

What do you think Kindergarten Means? You didn't use to start school until you 6 or some almost 7! That is what is called the Age of Accountability.

Woodrow Wilson Said, the point of a University is to make a man as most unlike his father as possible.

[Gabz]

Where Achievement is punished and ridiculed by a apathetic student body and the whole point of the education is to produce barley functioning students so they are more easily swayed to a certain point of view.

Oh really? The only function barley has in my daughter's life is on her dinner plate.

You didn't use to start school until you 6 or some almost 7!

As I commented in another post, I started at age 4 and that was 1965. And I went to Catholic school.

[Islander2]

[the whole point of the education is to produce barley functioning students so they are more easily swayed to a certain point of view.]

There is certainly a grain of truth in what you say.