[GingisK]

While I certainly can't speak for the majority, my opinion of the public school system is very low. This is based on the quality of applicants interviewed I have interviewed for jobs. They just don't know much. This opinion is also based upon reading news reports related to test score comparisons between US students and students elsewhere in the world. Finally, it doesn't take a lot of conversation with, say, high school students to realize that they don't know much compared to what I had to learn in the 1960s.

Couple this with the rather bone-headed display of ineptness on the part of school adminitrators over such things as "Tweety Bird" keychains and moral issues; and, there is no source of rational judgement for children to emulate. On the other hand, school time appears to be grooming students to become good little socialists with only scorn for the principles on which this Nation were founded.

Anyone who believes that the public school system is doing an adaquate job has simply adopted that stance without consulting reality.

[GingisK]

Gingis,
Proofread your crap before you post. OK?

[bettina0]

"Couple this with the rather bone-headed display of ineptness on the part of school adminitrators over such things as "Tweety Bird" keychains and moral issues; and, there is no source of rational judgement for children to emulate." Thank you, thank you, thank you. I couldn't have said it better myself. I often wonder what students think about their school administrators in this age of "zero-tolerance/ zero brains." Someone recently wrote a book about a high school in the Mid-West (I forget the title). The author stated that students feel that their school administrators are half way between stupid and crazy.

[blackbart.223]

"Anyone who believes that the public school system is doing an adaquate job has simply adopted that stance without consulting reality.

I couldn't agree more. Political correctness has taken the place of basic skills. Public schools don't educate, they brainwash.

[moog]

I am on the front lines and many public schools are doing a decent job. However, our priorities and attitude need changing. We are so concerned with numbers and politics that we don't stop to think what a little time volunteered will do. I often roll my eyes when I hear about the teachers using indoctrination and other like comments. It shows to me someone who really has not spent a lot of time in public schools.

BTW, I am not some liberal, but am in fact, quite conservative.