“...I’ve always thought there’s something uniquely egalitarian and therefore American about the idea of public education, providing opportunities for all children to better themselves.”
This author needs to pull his head out of the sand. What a deluded fool.
I am 64. My Blakely, Pa public school system reinforced our family’s values rather than undermine them. Those days are gone. I’ll bet that there are no private schools today which would stand up to Blakely’s excellence. In 1969, we had to become part of a jointure with two other inferior school systems. Our education fell off a cliff within months.
You bear me to it.
Written: “...I’ve always thought there’s something uniquely
egalitarian and therefore American about the idea of
public education, providing opportunities for all children
to better themselves.”
You wrote: “This author needs to pull his head out of the
sand. What a deluded fool.”
Deluded, not at all. Up until a half-century ago very
talented women were our teachers. Then they entered the job
market and teaching became the vocation of the very very
minimally talented. They were prey to every stupid ism that
came along at mediocre universities and passed it on to
their students. Good bye public schools.
The author gave the public schools a pass on the abysmal testing results of their students that show most graduates are without basic math & literacy skills, most also with no knowledge of history or civics.
The author seems more like an oblivious pontificater than a conservative; someone who liked the idea but refused to examine the results of the practice.
Our Nations educational system is a disgrace and the refusal to allow tuition from the Feds & States to go with the students to public, private, religious, charter, magnet schools is what allows this state of affairs to continue.