On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 05:43:06 GMT, Gunner
wrote:

On 14 Feb 2004 15:36:44 -0800, jim rozen
wrote:

In article , Ed Huntress says...

But they aren't the ones arguing the case, Gunner. Read your blogs. They're
full of bitter, resentful malcontents who hate public schooling

They don't hate public schooling.

They just hate paying for it.

Jim

They just hate paying for shoddy and worthless goods. Most of those
good folks have complained and bitched for years about the declining
quality of education coupled to rising costs. This is the reason the
voucher systems came into play along with home schooling. The folks
got tired of fighting the various NEA clones and entrenched school
adminisitrations who believe tenure and Taj Mahal edifices are more
important than a quality education.

Can you honestly say schools today are better than those you went to?

Well, I can certainly say that the public high school from which I
graduated is no worse today than it was when I graduated. And people
were talking about how miserable it was back then, too, because we
were only somewhere in the top twenty nationally for having the
graduates also graduate from college, and go on to higher degrees.

They were talking about how the high school district in which I now
live was completely inadequate back when Steve Jobs and "the Woz"
graduated from it. You can call it failure if you wish, but I think we
need more of it.

Al Moore