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I'm sure this truck driver would have done better for his son if he listened to the latest psycho-babble from the public school.
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Perhaps...but we can never know now.
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After all, the public system has been producing a marvelous stream of self-reliant individuals lately.
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I'm a product of public and state university schooling, as is my wife and our siblings, and all of our children. We have and - I can only assume - will continue to lead productive lives as hard working, self reliant, individualistic thinking, civic minded citizens of a great, albeit flawed, society.
Of my three sons, one is an environmental chemical engineer, one is a long-haul truck driver, and one is now doing his student teaching and preparing his senior art show in preparation to graduate from college in December with a BS (major is biology, minor is fine arts with teaching credential - and he wants to go to med school and become a medical illustrator. He also has illustrated three novels - one published and two currently in production).
As for their education, our guidelines were that they would finish high school and then should seek further schooling - but that would be their choice. And as far a career choice, the only parameters we put on them was that it should be something they enjoyed and had an aptitude for doing, something from which they could earn a living, and something that was legal - beyond that, it was their choice, not ours.
Public schools - as with charter schools, private schools, parochial schools, e-schools, and home schools - run the gamut in the quality of the education (or
indoctrination, as your postings infer) they offer - and all are responsible for producing some of the most productive and least productive of our nation's citizens. Based on their documented histories, I can only assume that they will continue to do so in the future.
Richard's public school educated $.02
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