Public schools have serious problems. Regular readers here should know me as a defender of public education, especially in the Thomas Jefferson/James Madison model of a foundation stone for a free people and essential tool for good government in a democratic republic.
Can you take another view? Here’s one that should offer serious material for thought: How the Public School System Crushes Souls.
Tip of the old scrub brush to Pick the Brain.
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And isn’t that a shame? It rings so true for so many of us – even those of us who weren’t strangers in a strange education land in high school.
I might write a rebuttal, but a soft rebuttal, showing a different possibility.
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That post on the public school system might be the best blog post I’ve read all year.
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