re: #280 researchok

I can tell you there are plenty of parents and kids who want to get an education. I can also tell you many public schools make it virtually impossible.

This is total bullshit

Let’s see, of the close friends of mine from high school I’m still in touch with, all of us went to public school, K-12:

Friend one: Served on a nuclear sub, has a masters, now in the FBI
Friend two: linguist who’s trying to save dying indian languages
Friend three: real estate whiz in alaska
Friend four: gallery artist in new york city, studied with masters around the world in various printmaking disciples
Friend five: works high up writing software for weaponry for boeing (or a contractor for boeing, it gets complicated) has security clearances he can’t even talk about
Friend six: has her own landscaping company, grew up DIRT POOR and now is essentially doing her dream job, which is high end gardening and outdoor sculpture for a living
Friend seven: serves on the water board of his district, works for the park service, has a lot of crazy responsibilities for their IT department
Friends eight and nine: corporate lawyers

And friend eight who went to a catholic school? Shat on constantly, beat up, dissed by his idiot classmates, couldn’t wait to get into the International Baccalauerate program at his public school after he got out of catholic school.

So yeah. Anecdote wars!