Originally Posted by Thurbs

as a LA / OC native by birth, I'll say this. Private school. I went to Carden Schools from Grade 1 -> Grade 8. During these "formative" years as educators call them, I remember clearly hearing from my parents and anyone else in my neighborhood what a horrible school system the public schools were, and how lucky I was to be at Carden.

point is, it was bad then, it sounds horrible now, yet the solution sounds the same. Send your kids to private schools. If more kids do it, maybe things will eventually privatize for schools.

and kids don't really need computers from the school, those classes are a joke at best, and since teachers don't understand how to utilize them for teaching most of the time, its just another form of money down the drain.

if you a kid really needs to learn how to facebook, a 400 netbook should be more than enough for that.

schools are horrible b/c everyone including parents are passing the buck.