[Consort]

Cute sound bite, but academia is about giving self-important individuals tenured positions which pay them a decent salary while requiring them to work maybe 15 hours a week.

What a cop-out. No wonder our schools are going down the tubes and our kids are being dumbed down. You are part of the problem.

[Redleg Duke]

No the problem is the screening process in universities, where those without skills or aptitude are pushed toward "education" careers.

[wideawake]

What a cop-out.

It's a painful truth, hardly a "cop-out."

No wonder our schools are going down the tubes and our kids are being dumbed down.

Oh, sure it's all my fault. If it makes you feel better, blame it on me.

Quite frankly, I don't care. No child of mine will ever be condemned to a government babysitting warehouse. You see, unlike most Americans, I care more about my children's moral and intellectual well-being than I do about my wardrobe, my local sports team or my car.

I will not cooperate in the fiction that modern, state-sponsored education is salvageable.

You are part of the problem.

What a laughable statement. I simply refuse to pay homage to the idol known as "public education" - I'm about as much a part of the problem as Christians were "part of the problem" of the decay in public morals in Imperial Rome.

They opted out of the system, and so do I.

[old-ager]

Oh oh. How has this troll stayed around here since 2000?
Admin - please do something.