[PornoDoggy]

Carrie ... I think that statements like "It's the gov't that took away the small hometown schools and pushed the kids out of homeschooling and farmed them into their big public school institutions" is further demonstration of the ignorance of history - willful or otherwise - that you exhibited the other day when you asserted that opportunities for black people began in 1865. Just one more thing the rite-thinkin 'merikins can fix once the shit goes down, huh?

I'm not a big fan of the educational establishment. I wen't to school back when a determination of who belonged to the cognitive elite was made by local educators, and was made pretty early. Unfortunately, the criteria applied often had as much to do with who the parents were, what neighborhood they lived in, what church they attended, what race or ethnic background, and - often the most important - how compliant the child was in the factory environment.

Great strides have been made in fixing those sorts of problems (except maybe the later - now we just drug 'em). The solutions have, as usually happens, created a whole new set of problems. Are they any worse now than they were before? I doubt it very seriously.



Last edited by PornoDoggy at Feb 6 2004, 11:18 AM