Look at it This Way

What's so important about public education? Well, plenty!! Many of us know what the strengths are concerning a strong public high school in our nation's various communities.

Let's look at it in a different light. What would our country be like without public schools?

For one, I think you would find that education in America might well devolve into competing institutions. Perhaps some would largely focus on Math and Athletics. Still others might emphasize the Humanities. Still others might concentrate on the Sciences. No doubt, each of these are critical. But each would miss out on 'educating the whole child.'

Already, there are plenty of specialty schools that really don't take all comers. Some aren't taking all students for a variety of reasons. So, without public schools, a good portion of the children in this country might well be totally ignored.

Without strong public the very foundation of our nation, in my view, would be in peril.

Just sayin...
Dick