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Apparently you haven't met enough people. Very few of the leaders in science or any other field come from one room schoolhouses this century.

Yep. - My view is invalid because I don't know the elite. How droll.

Even small towns in Arkansas had high schools such as the one where I received an excellent education. BECAUSE I WANTED ONE.

Personal self puffery does nothing to prove your point.

There are many outstanding people educated by the public schools throughout our nation's history. Most of the attackers of public schools simply don't know what they are talking about. Millions of children are educated every year successfully by them. Could they be better? Sure. We should strive to make them better not wholesale lies and misconceptions about them. Or pretend there is a private alternative for the masses. There isn't.

I'm neither pretending, nor lying about them.
You, on the other hand, seem very stressed. Why is a privatized school system so threatening to you? --- Weird reaction.

Who said anything about the elite? Your statement inplied a background so retarded that it is hard to believe you ever met anyone who even had an education. One room schoolhouses, come on they don't exist except in very, very, small isolated communities in this century and are not only not a factor but rarely did a good job when they were in existence. Places where the schools are one room schoolhouses are the same places the kids are desperately fleeing because there is no opportunity to develop one self or find decent paying jobs. Places like this are dying all across the Midwest and one of the biggest reasons is their labor forces don't have enough education to interest modern industry which demands an educated workforce. But keep on praising the poor educational systems.

Saying that I received an excellent high school education is "personal puffery"? This clearly indicates that you haven't met enough people if you think that is bragging. Some of us out there even have a college education and Masters Degrees. Imagine that.

Private schooling is no threat to me as I indicated my youngest son goes to one. So that is a stupid comment.

Unrealistic ideas are a threat to me, however, and the idea that private schooling is viable for the masses is totally unrealistic. Generally those holding such ideas are precisely those without much formal education.