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There are too many horror stories that have been in the news about public ‘institutions of learning’ .....

That's because bad news sells and good stuff is immaterial.

There are lots of really bad public schools, no doubt or argument with that fact. However, there is also good in the public schools which rarely gets published and will NEVER be acknowledged by a certain contingent of public school haters.

I have a note here that came home today from my daughter's TaG (talented and gifted) teacher about her being invited to participate in a literature and vocabulary enrichment program. According to my daughter not every child in her TaG class received the note, and there are only 12 children in the TaG class.

What you read about public schools in the news is generally skewed against the public schools. Even the best of them is not perfect, but not all of them are the cesspools the anti-public school contingent wishes to project them as.

Perhaps - I guess one bad school makes it worse for the others ... but there seems to be a recurring thread running through most ...

What you read about public schools in the news is generally skewed against the public schools. Even the best of them is not perfect, but not all of them are the cesspools the anti-public school contingent wishes to project them as.

A favorite stat of mine: On the national level, public school teachers send their children to private schools at twice the rate of the rest of the population, 22.5% vs. 12%.

But in the end, the issue isn't SAT scores, etc. The issue is parental control. The first principle regarding the formal education of children is that parents should be their children's primary educators. If this is true, then our current model of schooling is fundamentally unjust, since the government is the primary educator of our children, since children are assigned and compelled to attend government schools over which parents have minimal control.

A more just system of education would be a voucher or tuition-tax-credit system, where the government (taxpayers) would provide educational funding, but parents would be free to choose a school that corresponded to their beliefs.

What you read about public schools in the news is generally skewed against the public schools.

But this mitigates (maybe) the opinions about public education formed ONLY from what is heard in news reports.

I don't know many people whose ONLY exposure to the public education system is what they experience from news reports.