Getting Your Money's Worth?

Considering the exorbitant cost of public school education ($8,000 - $12,000 PER STUDENT in most areas), if education was truly the main goal, you would expect them to be turning out a generation of geniuses.

But from casual observation, you've probably figured out otherwise.

It is worse than you think. Consider this from YahooNews:

One in three U.S. high school students say the press ought to be more restricted, and even more say the government should approve newspaper stories before readers see them, according to a survey being released today.
The survey of 112,003 students finds that 36% believe newspapers should get "government approval" of stories before publishing; 51% say they should be able to publish freely; 13% have no opinion.

I'm not sure what's more frightening; the 36% that think the press should need government approval or the 13% with no opinion.
That means 49% of the high school students surveyed have absolutely NO CONCEPT of the First Amendment of the Constitution!

Public school is succeding in its goals of dumbing down our kids, squashing all creativity and independent thought and creating a generation of worker drones for government. After all, how can you defend something you don't even know exists?