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In reading the article, this sounds like a really crap school, but hardly unusual. I note the principal got fired over this. Yeah, taxpayers are really losing this battle, and parents already lost.

In the small eastern Colorado town where I lived before moving here, bullies and thugs - pitbull breeders, drug dealers, Hills-Have-Eyes-type murderous yokels - ruled everything. I have a number of stories about the school and local government there. (Of course, in everyone’s mind, I was the problem! I had visited that town a lot of times riding my motorcycle around eastern Colorado and I thought it was just the perfect place! LOL I would always think “I would like to live here!” and then when I did move there IT WAS A NIGHTMARE!!! I’m used to people not liking me and I guess I am kinda shady, but these folks found me to be a handy, handy scapegoat. Long story. Some of the people were very nice, but they were all in thrall to the State. I ended up getting run out of town in classic style. Just ask R Perry fans; they have the video.)

One principal who had just started his job was fired for trying to enforce discipline on kids who basically did whatever screwed-up thing popped into their minds, at great expense: They had to pay him the rest of his 5-year contract salary and hire another principal so the kids could keep to their bullying/vandalism activities.

A lot of people don’t know what’s going on in schools now. A lot of parents with kids in school don’t really care - it’s a place for the kid to go so he’s out of the house.

Getting rid of the DOE would solve a lot of society’s problems. Lower taxes would enable folks to educate their kids without government interference. And some kids, like the 18-year-old antagonist, really don’t belong in school. They don’t benefit from an education. No, I don’t have a solution to that particular problem, but forcing responsible people to pay for kids like that to be warehoused in public schools certainly isn’t the answer.