> Public education DOES sanction discrimination, I never had a
> principle who couldn't speak English properly (i.e. correct grammer
> and pronunciation) while attending the "intolerant" private schools,
Olga replied
<I don't understand what you wrote. The kind of discrimination practiced by
public schools (as was done in the past) allowing segregation based on race,
or the reading of the New Testament - that is what I was talking about.>
As is done in the present. The vice-princ. of the public high school I
attended
had a job because of EO. Ditto with the thuggery (which would have been
far far worse if I was one of just a few white kids in the school).
> Insofar as education has become more "non-discriminatory" (the
> official version I mean) and "democratic" it has commenced to suck
> more and more. This is only my opinion and experience speaking.
> If you honestly believe that not discriminating based on "religion,
> ethnicity, class and what have you" is worth having nearly illiterate
> persons wandering about the Republic, well to be extremely nice
> about it..I'm split between feeling pity and revulsion.
Are you saying that public schools should revert back to how they were
before Brown v. Board of Education? (and that that would result in better
public schools?).>
Uh..no. I say we demolish or auction of the public schools and let the
ghetto folks handle their own affairs. Whitebread baptists homeschool
their kids, the urban blacks can do the same. Can't they? (said with
a straight face). I mean if we are all instrinsically equal..how could
this be anything other than a blessing.
BTW Strawman tactic duly noted. Avoid it in the future please.
<comments on the Boy Scouts snipped...huh?>
> If you think public education is all that... wait 20 years and look
> at the number of homeschooled kids who become professionals.
> Vs. the criminal farms we have now.
It's a continual wonder to me that I, my children, friends, acquaintances
and relatives all seem to have come out of these criminal farms unscathed,
educated and ... have even lived to tell about it.>>
And I surmise..you didn't go to school in Anacostia (S DC) or Cabrini Green
now did you ma'am? Besides..you read lots. Literate people tend to
befriend literate people. Who are often autodidacts. Which minimizes
the detrimental effects. Granted I'm not throwing stats around to
negate your comment..but your comment was anecdotal in the extreme.
/r
brian
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