Bump your excellent post.
The problem is, wintertime, that graduates of the American public school have been made creatures of the State that created the system, and rarely have retained the capacity for critical thought.
The modern state creates its own people, as Brecht mockingly advised the East German regime back in ‘53.
have retained the capacity for critical thought.
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It is stunning that so many conservatives who are rational in every other way, continue to believe that government single-payer schooling can be fixed.
Gee! If we could only go back to the old K-12 system.....( Head banging against computer desk.)