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Well, since you have stated many times that ALL public schools are an abomination

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Those who have followed my posts know that I use that comment in reference to the First Amendment violations. I have not used this statement in regard to the emotional, physical, or educational treatment or outcomes of the children in government schools.

Even though all government school are in violation of the First Amendment, it is theoretically possible ( I supposed) for a child to come through a government school without being physically, emotionally, or educationally damaged. All successful schools, both private and government, must restrict speech, press, assembly, and religious expression, if chaos is to be prevented. While children in both systems experience the same restrictions, the private system conforms to the Constitution, while the government system is in violation of the First Amendment. The child's experience would be the same.

So...for you to take this comment out of context is a strawman argument.

I hope you are not doing this to your students. If you are, it is abusive. Children are not sufficiently mature to recognize strawmen, and they are also vulnerable. Teachers are in a position of authority, and capable of adverserly effecting grades, recommendations, and future options.

I have only addressed one of your stawmen comments. Your post is one long list of stawmen. You claim to be a conservative but argue like a liberal. The tactics of the liberal include distortion, strawmen, taking comments out of context, looking for the one exception, and applying the argument universally. They aim to exhaust the conservative. If the conservative walks away in disgust, the liberal may falsely think they have won the argument. Ah...but this is the Internet and these post stand for all to judge. This techniques do not work here on the Internet.

Hm?...As I think about it, the liberal's arguing techniques remind me of the techniques used by middle school alpha-girls and their girl gang members.

You claim to be a conservative, but the term "conservative government school defender" is an oxymoron. You also argue like a liberal. Did you learn this in you college of education?

Again, with the personal attacks and innuendoes when I hit close to the truth. How funny that you accuse me of the very same tactics that you use. Seeing as you are much older that I am, I would have thought you would have arrived at a different stage of life. To each his own I reckon.

I don't defend public schools nationwide - that would be arrogant. I do defend the right and responsibility that of parents to choose what is best for their child at the time. I respect the choices that parents make and am always happy when they excel. I have never told a child that their parents wasted their education - again, that would be arrogant.

Have a nice night