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Originally Posted by GratefulCitizen
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The root of many problems in the public education system can be traced to this:
It was designed for the industrial age.
The industrial age is over.
/rant off/
The public indoctrination system didn't mesh well with my oldest.
Learning from this experience, I part with a considerable share of my income to put my younger kids through a private, religious school.
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Where else but public education - and maybe prisons - do people respond to bells/whistles? Most of our public education system is doing a very poor job of preparing students for life in 1950, let alone 2009 - while we should be preparing them for 2029.
I'll never regret having my daughters attend private, religious schools for their elementary school education.
Here in the Phoenix, AZ area, however, there are a lot of quality Charter Schools where a selective, caring parent can see their child get a fine education, tax-paid.