[A Strict Constructionist]

Depends on the public school. They are like parochial schools. Not all are alike and not all are bad and not all are good.

[riverdawg]

“Depends on the public school. They are like parochial schools.”

No they’re not. Public schools depend on the monopoly power of government, enforced by the threat of violence, to survive in the face of competition from private schools, both secular and parochial. I’ll believe that public schools are “like” parochial schools when public-school officials drop their opposition to school vouchers.