[Badray]

"At least 95% of those who kicked Saddam's ass are graduates of the public schools. How could that be?"

Nice try.

I'm saying that the government indoctrination centers produce uneducated kids. That doesn't mean that the kids are stupid. And the young men and women who join the armed services are also trained to do their jobs by people who are truly interested in them being the best that they can be.

Do I have this right? You look down on Jefferson, worship Lincoln, and think that public education is just fine?

[justshutupandtakeit]

Millions of America students get good educations from their public schools IF THEY WANT ONE. America's soldiers are overwhelmingly from the public schools which puts the lie to their enemies which happily (for ideological reasons) claim they are total failures.

Jefferson was as great a man as a manipulative, hypocrit could be. It was not his fault he was unable to rise above the Evil social system he helped grow to great power. He was one of our most overrated presidents and did almost nothing of worth during the Revolution. Lincoln was, at least, our second greatest president. There is no doubt of that, no matter if there is a concentrated campaign to Lie and distort his work here on Free Republic.

Public schools are doing a decent job given the severe constraints they are operating under. The main problem facing them in the big cities is being inundated by a wave of vicious bastards from the Welfare classes. In schools where these children are not a significant proportion of the students (such as in the suburban schools) excellent educations are available.

Left-wing propaganda and the teachers Unions are huge negatives and must be dealt with but to pretend that public schooling could be eliminated is just ideological fanaticism.

I think the disdain for the public schools is, in general, in inverse proportion to the education of the disdainer.