Originally Posted by *KK*

Public school is not the same any more. I went to public school, and I always thought that would be the way to go with my kid. Problem is, you've now got nearly 40 kids shoved into a classroom designed to hold 20. You've got one teacher -- especially when they get out of the really beginner grades -- trying to teach nearly 40 kids.

Then you've got to manage the walking pharmacopia of all the different meds, issues, and crap going on with all these kids.

One of my good friends is a teacher and he's getting out of it as fast as he can. After they convicted the teacher for "showing her students porn" when she had complained repeatedly that there was something wrong with the computer in her classroom (they wouldnt let her turn the computer off or unplug the network cable, against the rules) and no one would fix it, he's just done.

No one wants to teach any more in public school that is qualified to teach. The system really is broken.

Originally Posted by *KK*

Do you have kids? Have you been inside the average public school classroom lately? Do you know any teachers?

Getting your children a good education is not pampering them. It's creating responsible and educated adults, something that is not happening in this country right now in public schools. The lack of funding, overcrowding in schools, and dearth of qualified teachers who truly want to be there makes for a very different education system than we had even ten years ago.