You must be joking, Bill. Many things made America great, but the public school
system is not one of them, unless you are fortunate enough to live in a place
with good schools. My son was born in Tampa in 1989. The public schools there
were so terrible that anyone who cared about their children's well being found
a way to avoid them; the rich sent their kids to private schools, the others
converted to Catholicism etc. so that they could send their offspring to good
Catholic schools. We moved to New Jersey in 1990, and luckily enough we lived
near Princeton. The good thing about college towns is that college professors
are not paid enough to send their children to expensive private schools (we had
one of those in our town) but since they care about education they get involved
in the local school board etc., so the public schools in such places tend to be
decent too. But those are the exceptions. The US has the world's best
universities, but below that level it is the pits, wit
h some rays of sunshine in places like Lawrenceville, NJ.
Nathan
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On Dec 26, 2010, at 6:39 PM, Bill Pearce wrote:
> The thing that once made America great, is our system of universal public
> education. The fall of that system is going to lead to our downfall.
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