[Dukie]

Public schools were successful in large measure due to the common culture and beliefs which characterized the United States until the later decades of the 20th century. Today, with their state mandated mission to promote multicultural diversity, alternative lifestyle acceptance, etc. state schools have stolen time and resources from the core subjects of scholastic endeavor for such non productive ends.

I believe we've reached the point that public schools are beyond redemption and that private enterprise - including acadamies, church schools, charter schools and home schools - is the best avenue toward a renaissance in American education.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Private enterprise has never created viable means of education when that is all there is. It was precisely because of the failures of private enterprise that public schools were created. This is history not some fantasy of mine. A system which educates a small minority of the wealthy cannot function within a modern society nor could it solidify and consolidate a nation's population.

I do not dispute some of your critiques of current standards and issues wrt to schools but those same problems (and worse) are in many of the private schools as well. Teaching the truth about American history is very important and very neglected in both systems.

But the question no one wants to answer is "how are the poor going to afford $6,000 per yr. per student?" And since the nation needs educated people "how is the nation going to prosper with less education." "How are we even going to have a sufficiently educated military if we allow the public education system to self-destruct?"