[trisham]

The point is that the system is utterly corrupt, that the government school system was a mistake from the beginning

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Good post, but you could have stopped here. :) The system has become a bloated bureaucracy and political force whose last priority is teaching.

[Froufrou]

"The system has become a bloated bureaucracy and political force whose last priority is teaching"

Absolutely correct! Did you know that kids are too often labeled as ADHD because schools get enhanced federal dollars for them? And these kids are being medicated!

It's an outrage.