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I went to a public school, largely vocational.
College prep was near non-existant, and I suffered for it. My parents could not afford private school for us.
The public school system babysat large numbers of students who did not care, and neither did their parents, it was a day care service. Their disinterest and disruption dragged the entire class to a mediocre level as the teachers tried to keep them involved. Would I have preferred to go to a school where people took an interest in their kid's grades, and the kids tried their best? You betcha. Which school would I send my kids to? The one where they could learn the most and would be held to the highest standards.
IMHO, there is a world of difference in being told that you can go wherever you want, and being told that you can't go there (or have to go there).
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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