[daviddennis]

If you concede that government is not going to improve education in the foreseeable future, there seems to be little point in complaining about the analogy.

I'd say that unregulated food is a great deal less dangerous than highly regulated educaction, but that's just me.

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[nopardons]

Unregulated food and patent medicines KILLED people;thousand of them and maimed others. Unregulated education was as bad, if not worse, than public education is today.Yes, I know that that's hard to believe, but it's a fact!

By 1870, compulsory education was the law, but it wasn't enforced.In one area of N.Y. C., 9 children out of 600, actually attended school. What did the others do?Some worked, a lot of them were gang members, who mugged and robbed and stole and.or were prostitutes. Many of the gang members were used by Tammany Hall ( Dems, in case you didn't know )to FIX ELECTIONS and terrorize others to vote Dem.

If you think that things were better in rural America, you're wrong.In Canton, Mass., in 1870 ( and this is rural country, NOT a city! ) after reprimanding four boys, by keeping them after school ( yes, detention is that old!),when they were let out, they STONED THE TEACHER TO DEATH . These were whites, BTW.

Out on the prairie, things were even worse.

There are good, bad, and indifferent public schools today.Can they be fixed? YES! Will they be? I don't know, but it doesn't look good.