[Lazamataz]

School officials are running a very close second to journalists in the destruction of America.

I used to think public schools had a place. I now know that there should not be ONE SINGLE public school. All education should be done by private entities.

[Tax-chick]

Welcome to the dark side. We have dictionaries!

[RipSawyer]

Public schools were not so bad when the public did not consist of hysterical ninnies.

[arthurus]

Public schools are the most destructive institution in America. Where did the journalists get their attitudes originally? We have had this non-education for six or seven generations now. There is no more knowledge of history or much of anything else. Kids grow up with no sense of what sorts of things work and what do not. They will believe anything ideologues and politicians tell them. The society is already gone. It is not coming back.

That is like the immediate reason that there can never be any accommodation between the Israelis and the "Palestinians." The Palestinian kids for several generations have been educated to certain beliefs and habits that cannot be broken. They cannot accommodate. They have not the mental tools to actually reason. For that situation to improve Israel or some major Western nation would have take iron control of all the schools in the ME and teach real academic subjects, especially History as things really happened.

Education in the USA and in Gaza is very similar. There is no real content, just attitudes, mainly fear and hate.

[cycjec]

From the prolific author, Greg Perry (about eBay and sundry computer topics:

My bride, a former public school ... just told me this: Lockdown is nothing more than an attempt to keep collateral damage to a fixed number. Its their (failed) hope that the maximum number of students who will die will be the number locked inside the room or hall with the shooter.

from the Freemendo at Typepad blog 04 November 2007 Lockdown

Lockdown, lockdown, lockdown. No, no, no. When the terrorists began their assault at Beslan, around 40% of the students and staff ran like cuh-razy to get away from the school. A few hid in the boiler room. Every single one of those children and adults lived.