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The public education is not free. It comes from taxes. As far as I am concerned the whole department of education can be scrapped.
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Ditto. I went through public school (not that long ago) and graduated high school in '93. I found much of it to be by and large a waste of time. Not that public education is a waste of time per say, but how much time is wasted in school. And it sure as hell isn't free when the NEA/teachers union/school districts continually harp that they need MORE money, and have declining results and accountability to show for their actions.
On another front, it continually amazes me how many people think that the United States is a true democracy, when in fact it is a form therof called a "Representative Republic". Remember "...and to the republic for which it stands..."? Case in point...the electoral college. Transfers power away from huge population centers and transfers the interests of the vote to the land as a whole. We saw this in the last presidential election...but people still think the electoral college should be scrapped because we now have electronic voting machines...
Perhaps if we got back to the basics of history, math, and science in our public schools...and a few less "feel good" classes...more people would be aware of the facts...
-BG