[Always Right]

Reminds me of Gore when he was looking at the busts of Jeffereson, Washington and others and asking the host who those guys were.

[baltodog]

A child's education is what you, as a parent, make it.

My kids all go to public schools, where my wife volunteers, and they are doing just fine.

We're not poor by any means.

[Xenalyte]

Dick Cheney said last night that he's a product of public schooling.

Come to think of it, so am I. I am neither foolish nor left-wing.

I'm starting to resent your remarks.

[mlmr]

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[Semper Vigilantis]

Hay! Eye wendt two publik skool to! I recent that remake aboat publik skoolz. ;)

Seriously, I attended military schools until High School, then went public. Of course that was 30 years ago. My stepson went to public school and try as my wife & I might there just weren't enough hours in the day to deprogram him.
Luckily he woke up on his own before it was too late. I'd say 4 out of 5 of his friends are unemployable idiots that can't make change with a calculator!

[Moleman]

I also went to public school and seemingly turned out OK. It's all what the parents make of it, a good district is also a help.

Home school bunch would be all over this thread if it were in News/Activisim

[SouthernFreebird]

Frankly this homeschooling elite club crap is getting old.

[Johnnyboy2000]

I went to public schools as a child. I went to a public university and graduated cum laude. I am now a successful business owner who is certainly not poor. French billionaire Kerry might even call me rich. I resent your comments. They demonstrate your ignorance. Look at the statistics for self-made millionaires, and you will notice that most of them went to public schools. Does the name Bill Gates mean anything to you? I could go on, but it would take a very long time. Citing two examples from your personal life doesn't convince anyone that public schools are inferior. I'm glad that I have the ability to deal with people from diverse backgrounds, rather than being a sheltered little pansy who had to be protected from reality like French Kerry. You make kids liberals by separating them from reality, so that they look at poor people as if they were a sociology project rather than actual people. I went to a public school were 30% of the kids lived in Section 8 Housing. That will make a person anything but a liberal. Your son is probably liberal because he is a kid. I cannot recall who said "Show me a conservative at 19, and I'll show you someone without a heart. Show me a liberal at 50 and I'll show you someone without a brain." He is definetly right about the liberal at 50.

[AdrianSpidle]

Listen my conservative friends, my perspective is of a conservative in Massachusetts where the disease of Left Liberalism totally controls the public schools and universities. I really feel I would have to be an idiot to let those knee jerk lefty teachers and even talk to my precios daughter.

Yes the teachers in Montessori Educare school that she attends are all liberal, but -

1 - they follow an excellent curriculum that is devoid of Left Liberalism and,

2 - they actually listen to me when I tell them I don't want to hear that they're promoting their political ideas in her class.

Sorry if I insulted some of you, but as a product of the long ago but excellent public school system of New York City, I know what I know.

The Public Schools of Massachusetts are more about indoctrination than learning. Maybe your state is different, but I am skeptical, especially if your teachers are unionized and if your state is a Democrat state.

[old and tired]

I have several grandchildren in our local parochial school. The sixth grade teacher put up pictures of Kerry and Bush for a little lesson about the election. Every week she polls the class. It's currently running 27 to 3, Bush over Kerry.

In religion class, the kids were given the assignment "What was wrong with John Kerry receiving Communion in a Baptist Church? Why do you think he did it? Should John Kerry be receiving Communion in a Catholic Church?"

We live in the Philadelphia suburbs, and Al Gore won our county by 200,000 votes. I'm pretty sure Kerry will win it this time around too. However, I'm glad to see the kids in our parish school are not going to be fooled by Kerry's "Catholicism".