http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5VND1-u6YM

The disadvantage being that the Augean stables were at least empty of the animals who used to live there. Whereas the stables that you are cleaning out are continually visited by new ones like Tad, who leave fresh deposits every day.

Lucky thing you’ve got a big shovel.

Ask most people born between 1965 and 1970 or so where they learned about Government, history and math and you’ll get the unanimous answer:

ABC’s Schoolhouse Rock.

Back when they cared more about education than indoctrination.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEJL2Uuv-oQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VQA5NDNkUM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofYmhlclqr4

the one that resulted in audible humming in most every test on the Constitution:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNb9AoY5XXE

and the one that simply horrifies educators and other PC-types today:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twFs9Vk6F0A

Petronius, I couldn’t agree more.

I also have no issue with private schools.

Yes, the public schools have gone down hill.

These are my own personal observations as to some of the reasons why:

1) Students are not allowed to be ability grouped. Why? Too many minority students are
not in the higher academic groupings.
2) The IQ to qualify for special education has been lowered, while expectations have gone
up. In most states the IQ has been lowered by 10 points since the mid 80′s. Instead of 79
being borderline retarded, it’s now 69. So in all actuality inclusion of educable mentally
handicapped students has been going on for at least 25 years; they’re just not considered
ESE. Those that could achieve more, don’t because they have a teacher, who is under
pressure, to lift those lower students and spends a disproportionate amount of time with
them. Why the lowering of IQ? Too many minority students in ESE.
3) More inclusion is underway. Students with IQ’s in the mid 40′s, even lower are making their
way threw general education classrooms under differentiated curriculum.
4) An unintended consequence of lawsuits is zero liability for accountability. It’s
never a student’s fault for misbehaving or lack of performing. Nor is it the parents. The
general philosophy is “The kid screws up, punish the teacher.” How’s that been working for
everyone? (sarcasm)
5) Crap curriculum. Most teachers never have a say in what they think would be the best. It’s
the school board’s bottom line ($) making that decision. Also, when the most liberal states
begin using garbage, i.e. California, New York, Wisconsin, etc. every other state seems to
fall in line. Even when it’s proven NOT to work. Which is how the indoctrination begins.
6) Education is not a top priority with certain ethic groups. You can lead a horse to water, but
but you can’t make it drink.
7) Allowing college students to graduate in education who never should.
8) Allowing poor teachers to remain when they shouldn’t. It’s not just the union’s fault on this
either. Too many times it boils down to principals who are too lazy to document or
intimidated by being called…wait for it..a racist. Not that all minority teachers are poor; I’ve
seen many who were excellent.
9) How about using a professor’s judgment when the “teacher” can’t pass
the state exam after several attempts. I witnessed one such occurrence. This doesn’t
happen with anyone but minorities because…wait for it…you’re a racist if they’re turned
down.

I could go on and on, but my head hurts…

Not that I think public education is particularly good anywhere, but I’d be curious to see any data you have to make that “nebulous” claim.

Who is in charge of the executive branch? The President
The correct answer is George Soros.

I went to a private Catholic school nine years as a kid and it was pretty good.Then I went to a public high school and one of my first days in class was marked by two teen guys who started a fist fight at the front of the room, after the teacher had walked out. The janitor moped up the blood on the floor after the fight was over. There were several good teachers and programs in this school – and I later transferred to an excellent public alternative school for troubled kids (perhaps because anyone who bullied or fought would be summarily expelled) but I suspect most public education is inferior to what someone could obtain through private means.

Liberals, in their approach to education, adamantly reject any education in the time-honored traditions, heroes, history (i.e., the true, glorious, and uplifting history), hallowed beliefs, institutions, manners and principles of conduct that our children get from home, family, and church––all of those really important things that instill cohesion, pride, and loyalty in the social order. Indeed, these things are treated as errors and prejudices, which it is the duty of the public schools to ferret out and eradicate.

Thus we see that every modern dictator of every two-bit country will have a program to establish public schools and universal education.

The universities of the Americas, Europe, India, and the Arab world have bred more communists and terrorists than all of the slums, sweat-shops, back alleys, hovels, and impoverished rural villages of the entire world.

It is time to abolish the public school system and replace it once and for all with private schools.

Educated people are people who will fight for their freeedom.

I’m not saying that every or any teacher sets out to keep students in the dark about American history.

But that is CERTAINLY what Bill Ayers has advocated his entire life. For him, the purpose of school is political indoctrination.

And he and his like-minded intellectual terrorists have had their way with huge swaths of the American educational system.

Anymore ….. school is a gangland breeding ground and a babysitting service.
Shame the government has tied the hands of our educators teaching homosexuality, socialism, hate and discontent, Mary has two mommies and Donnie has two daddies!