You dispose of your strongest argument here. It is well-documented that the public schools were intended to fail from the beginning in order to bring us socialism. That it is compulsory is precisely the perfect refutation of rwb's assertion. It also demonstrates that a system that denies that first freedom to families, to raise their children as their own, is to socialize all citizens as public property. rwb likes his ability, as a member in good standing of the mass-claque of like-minded control freaks, to control that property. It's simple greed for power, and not much deeper than that.
rwb is in that regard a demonstrably archetypal product of that very educational system. It HAS worked, and will collapse into tyranny right on schedule.
Being compulsory, has nothing to do with determining whether public schooling will or will not fail.
It also demonstrates that a system that denies that first freedom to families, to raise their children as their own, is to socialize all citizens as public property.
I didn't say that kids have to go to public schooling. I said I was in favor of the majority (99%) of the population having some sort of education.
There aren't enough toilet-cleaning jobs to go around and still generate a powerful economy and technological base.
If you're raising an illiterate brat in your house, I don't want my taxes going to house him in some jail, 15 years from now, or pay for his lawyer, just because he didn't have the skills to make a legal, liveable income and had to break into my house to make a buck.
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That the public schools are corrupt and leftist infiltrated can not be denied. On the other hand, no school system in the world could deal with an influx of completely unsocialized children from neighborhoods where there may be 80% or more out of wedock birth rates. That must changes before any school system can be expected to work. School systems can not be expected to counteract complete irresponsibility and social madness.