11-10-2006, 04:58 PM
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Doku, the specific disagreement I have with you was this statement: Quote:
Originally Posted by Doku  My personal take on education is that public education is exactly what America needs. We need more factory workers. We need more WalMart greeters. We need more ditch diggers. We need more garbage collectors. Now, for my children, I will homeschool. I expect my children to be America's elite, not America's peons. | Now, if I'm misreading that, then I'm misreading it, but that sounds to me like an implied caste system: if nothing else, the homeschooled elite and public schooled peons. It doesn't sound to me like the current system is something they deserve.
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