[libertyminded]

m5ange1

You need to realize that you were brought up in the same broken system only with different problems. Your post completely ignored the fact that the whole system is designed to subordinate not to educate. If you had read the first post then you would have noticed the statistics I gave regarding the literacy level of people throughout century. If you're not interested in going back and reading the facts, then let me just summerize for you that the picture is bleak.

Also you act as if the only option outside of public schools is private ones. This certainly fits in with the lazy American attitude regarding who's responsible for what. There was a time when America was the most literate intellectual country in the world BEFORE we had a compulsory education system. In those days you got taught the basics by your family and after that you had enough knowledge to self-educate, to seek out experts to teach you, to find the authors with the information you desired. Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Eddison were in fact, kicked out of formal schools for being too unruley.

Would dismantling the public schools be difficult? Yes at first it would, but charter schools could pick up a lot of the slack while we are revamping out economy so we can become a nation of self suffecint individuals instead of whordes of uneducated proletariate like masses.