[Monterrosa-24]

"The Cult of Mediocrity" was one of my father's favorite phrases and it is perpetuated greatly by public schools. I am a product of those schools. After private kindergarten I went PS 1-12. I often think of the waste of time although over the years I did get some good lessons.

Sunday School was too trendy too and years and years of Sunday School taught me less than reading one chapter of THE COST OF DISCIPLESHIP.

Back when Nashville had divided city and county schools, the city schools had no school buses--zero, no fleet at all. Students walked, biked, road a city bus, or were taken by their parents. Now the same schools are served by long yellow columns and so the waste in public schools goes to petroleum as well as money and time.

But the thing that haunts me is the reading of letters from Confederate enlisted men who wrote much better prose than many college students of today.

[Aquinasfan]

I am a product of those schools. After private kindergarten I went PS 1-12. I often think of the waste of time although over the years I did get some good lessons.

That we all experienced this and yet so many of us blithely ship our children off to experience the same fate is a mystery to me.