Reply #39: Yes, I consider your posts mean-spirited,

[countingbluecars]

but not because you don't "bend knee" to the "sacred cow". Rather, it is because you refuse to address ANY of the positives mentioned about the public school system or the teachers who work daily to improve the system. Instead, you twist people's words and demean the teaching profession. The majority of your posts on DU are attacks on the school system. You have the right to do that, and I have the right to question your motives. Are you as vehement in your criticism of other flawed systems? Should we just abandon them all-privatize them all?

Even if I were to accept your argument that the school system is solely responsible for a one third drop out rate, I would still see the glass as three thirds full. I am working to improve it. Have you tried to talk a kid out of believing the KKK propaganda his father was feeding him? Have you tutored or mentored kids after school? Have you encouraged children to embrace diversity and tolerance? Have you counseled students going through divorces and domestic abuse? Have you bought clothes and books for students? Have you cried with a group of 10 year olds after reading Sounder, the story of a poor sharecropper's son, or the story of Ruby Bridges? Have you inspired any children other than your own? I have, and so have many public school teachers.