Why public education should be scrapped

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16. Public education is NOT about what the taxpaying public gets for its money

In no law is this a standard for the existence or maintenance of public education. So that's the first premise in your treatise you can throw out.

The next is your assumption that GE teachers are responsible for lesson plans for special needs kids in GE classes. Get real. GE teachers do not plan lessons around these kids. Their IEP plan drives class participation, assignment/test requirements. not the GE teachers. Most of the GE teachers require greater guidance that is all. If you didn't ask for it, then the fault is not in education or in the kids.

Next up, credit retrieval. True, some students do require this and true-there is no enough data to show whether or not this is an adequate system. But some kids move around-a lot. They have lousy study habits, they lack motivation in some cases and in others, they have not attained the skills through no fault of their own. Online credit retrieval programs are quite rigorous as is the GED.

Now I have little quarrel with the idea that parental and student responsibility are sorely lacking when it comes to education. But I fail to see where credit retrieval programs, low motivation and what all should damn all kids to a lifetime of ignorance. Public education is NOT a total failure and should not be treated as such.

Some students fail. Its a fact of life. We don't want that but it happens.