You both need to get off the “bash all public schools” bandwagon that is so pervasive on this forum.
The trouble makes the news, the good stuff never does.
No school is perfect, be it public or private, but the same is true for anything one looks at — if one is willing to look with an open mind.
When it comes to public schools it appears many on this forum do not have an open mind, which is a shame.
My prayers are with the victims of this senseless crime.
Would it be fair to use him as an example of what home-schooled Christians are like?
Adding my prayers with yours and bumping your accurate observations.
Well, let's be factual.
Big city public school schooling is overly expensive, poorly run, indoctrinating instead of educating and, dare I say it, dangerous.
Now, if you want to dispute that statement with facts, have at it.
You both need to get off the “bash all public schools” bandwagon that is so pervasive on this forum
No they do not, and it is not pervasive enough by one 100th of one percent.
The public school system has given us the modern day social and political realities of America today.
As one who once worked in education, I am appalled at how totally the pursuit of the end of America, and the manner in which the achievements, ideals, values, pride and dignity of Western Civilization are so thoroughly demeaned in all of public education, both normal and higher.
Were it to fall apart and crash burning to the ground, this country would be the greater for it.
It is no longer an asset, but a public disgrace. - Abolish it, in toto.
The founding fathers would be once again moved to revolutionary action.
Decadent: adj; fallen from a higher plane or ideal.
[When it comes to public schools it appears many on this forum do not have an open mind, which is a shame.]
As long as public schools can force Ritalin and other mind altering drugs on kids without parental notification, the schools will be lousy .
Couldn’t agree more. The teachers are doing a good job at our schools.
The problem is the secularist liberals trying to tear this country to pieces with their deranged idiocy, not just in schools, but courts, govt., helathcare etc.
I wish it WAS only public school!
Crap look at what comes AFTER public school: Va. Tech!
Learn about Darwin, survival of the fittest.
(Just ask the high school freshman who gets his a$$ kicked and endures insults every day because hes not big enough to fight back. Then, he gets an offer of some cheap drugs.)
Learn how the Fed Gubmint is our savior with pockets so deep they never end. (Teachers, the Priests of liberalism just cant resist pushing it.)
No moral training, no responsibility.
IMHO, Public schools stink worse than most people realize.