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Originally posted by Flame Of Liberty+Jan 14 2005, 06:27 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Flame Of Liberty @ Jan 14 2005, 06:27 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-InTheSlot@Jan 14 2005, 02:17 PM
I bet this case is just one in a million. Put a lot more people out there and I bet the chance of "success" drops off a cliff.
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And thats not really the main point of the article, is it? The author says it himself.
The point is the damage public schools cause, regardless of the girl in a tent. [/b][/quote]
Actually the point seems to be about "the damage public schools cause according to some guy in another town who overheard a conversation between three young girls he doesn't know".
Scrapping public schools, as this moron advocates, will mean that millions of children in North America get no education at all.
I've had plenty of experience with "home-schooled" children and most of that experience was of the "picking up the pieces" variety. One former student of mine (in a private school!) had a real independent mother who didn't buy what the government was selling and decided to "home school" her son. Public shools are far from perfect, but as I sat there teaching her 17 year-old son how to read and count, I came to the conclusion that he would have been far better off if someone (the government) had been looking out for him.