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As if modern public education in any manner reflects the classical education that the founders envisioned! You belie your own argument with your quotes filled with science, virtue and talent. Public education in this country long abandoned merit, virtue and morality.

The annals of academia are filled with the antithesis of such values. The grand proclamations by you gods call you to reject empiricism in the vain pursuit of leftist goals of atheism, communism, and egalitarianism. The current crop of youths enamored of uncle Bernie are the product of your beloved institution. I am not opposed to public education; I am opposed to a system of education teaches hate toward the people and country who support it.

Free schools under the direction of the parents whose children attend worked for hundreds of years. The advent of the unified school district and the emergence of the NEA destroyed that model. Though there are many wonderful teachers, they succeed despite, not because of, the system. For each one of those teachers, there are hundreds who are incompetent and some who are outright evil.

The children of the poor are not lifted to genious, but taught dependence, envy and hatred. Those who make it out intact are not representative, but anomalies who succeed in rare instances. The bulk of suburban schools provide a simulacrum of education for most of their students; however few survive the teach-to-test with their joy of learning intact. Memory dumps and google searches are great for passing tests, but neither equal thinking.

As Samuel Clemons said, “I never let schooling get in the way of my education.”

And you still have not shown any sources proving the "Millions abused." I was entirely homeschooled due to my parents careers which required frequent long term residence in third world countries. And I know that it is not the glorious rainbows, butterflies, and unicorns, that you all claim.

Frankly the blame for the poor condition of the public education system can be placed on the shoulders of homescrewlers that pulled their kids out rather than fix the problem they encounter. Eldridge Cleaver said: 'There is no more neutrality in the world. You either have to be part of the solution, or you're going to be part of the problem.'

Seeing as so many of you have made the conscious decision to absent yourself from the solution.......