[Nateman]

Public education is a kludge. You can keep on trying to tweek it and micro-manage it but it will always suffer the same basic problem : it’s paid with other people’s money for other people’s kids . It will always move to Soviet style antics as long as it is paid for by the state . To see the real difference state control causes check out your local supermarket verses what they had in the USSR.

[Hugin]

Public schools weren’t always bad. The ones I went to were good back in the 50s and 60s. The three main reasons they are bad now are teachers unions, teaching degrees, and a culture created by the welfare state that rejects education and work in general.

[Tax-chick]

Mark Zuckerberg thought smart people with technocratic ideas and lots of money could make a government school system work. He was totally dead wrong. The concept is flawed at its foundation.

[arrogantsob]

Public education used to work very well. It prepared me for further study and obtaining two degrees.

My older son attended public schools and was a Nuke on the USS Ohio. He didn’t learn much in the schools and was always a problem to his mother and I because he refused to do the work.

My younger son attended a private school and the first thing he said to me every morning coming up the stairs was “Dad, I hate school.” My response was “Keeg, that is too damn bad.”

Public schools worked quite well until the faculties went Commie.