TK> -> TK> though, since I was educated in a public school.
 TK> -> By your own admission, you also went to college.
 TK> entrance in the college.
 TK> Yes, but it was the public school system that allowed me to gain
No, it was your own effort and genetic inheritance that allowed you to gain 
entrance into the college.
 TK> Yes, but the way that Jane makes it sound, only those who are either
 TK> home schooled or educated in private schools have a chance at ever
 TK> getting ahead. Only jail, or welfare.
On the contrary.  OUt of the percentage that doesn't do well at all in 
school, possibly because the public schools fail to teach them much of 
anything at all and bore them stiff, is a very high percentage that end up in 
our prison system.  Their education has been lousy at best.
The public school system also didnt do one daughter of mine much good until 
she hit her last two years and was interested in art.  She has to get her 
hands into something to really be interested in it, does not learn well by 
sitting and being lectured to, neither does her daughter.
Come to think of it, I can sit and stare into a very boring speaker's eyes 
and take a trip throughout the galaxy.
That is the daughter, incidently, who has a Master's degree in what is called 
"Whole System Design".  Which Boeing, among other local firms, is now 
adopting.
 TK> agreed, but that doesn't say how many were educated in public
 TK> schools, or elsewhere.
Get off the kick about the schools.  ANd go to your nearest large 
metropolitcan newspaper for whatever they have in file about the state of the 
schools today and find out just how ignorant you really are about the facts 
in this case.
Then come back and hold an intelligent conversation concerning them.
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