[originalbuckeye]

Another destructive remnant of the Carter era. give the education system back to the States!

[Alberta's Child]

Bump for later.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

It is time for Americans to admit “public education” NEEDS competition.

Big time.

Now.

[Orangedog]

The whole system is screwed and needs to be more or less scrapped. Especially the whole concept of high school, which has way too much emphasis on games and clubs and isn’t getting kids ready for college or a trade. Kids should have the option of being able to graduate as soon as they can pass a proficiency test instead of having to be stuck that artificial community for four years.

[Wurlitzer]

There are only 3 viable solutions for those of us who listened to the words of the Founders regarding big/abusive government.

1) Home school if you have the time & ability (best choice)
2) Private school if you have the money
3) Non-Union Charter school if 1 & 2 are impossible for you.

Anything else is just surrender to the plan laid out by the Communist Manifesto and wholeheartedly embraced by the public school system.

They have had decades (since the mid 1950s) to indoctrinate what appears to be 1/2 the country into the socialist/communist/Marxist mindset. This was the greatest reason for Teacher Unions as schools were not sweat shops and being run by government SHOULD have precluded any need for a union. Hell even FDR knew public unions were bad.

Please, fellow Conservatives do everything possible to implement 1, 2, or 3 for you kids and grand kids. Anything else is child abuse.

[Alberta's Child]

I've said for years that even the basic ideas of "public schools" and compulsory education have no place in a free nation.

The whole system is rotten to the core, and has played a very major role in the decline of the United States over the last 50+ years.