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[Clansgian AT wmconnect.com]

> Since we all have the right of free
> speech (at least this week so far as I've heard), if you don't like
> the status quo, you're free to change it in your community. Have you?
> 

Yes, I homeschool my children and encourage everyone else to.

No, it isn't a matter that some schools are good and some are bad.  Schooling 
itself is bad and there is no good version of it.  What passes for "good" 
schools are only those that do a little less regimentation and 
indoctrination.  
It's like saying there are good burglers and bad burglers because the good 
ones 
only take part of your valuables.  Yet neither is the same as no one breaking 
into your house at all.

Sure communities function when its members have attended public school.  
Plantations functioned too although most people there were slaves.  But it 
doesn't 
follow that slavery was  a good thing.

And look at your premise, if you don't like the schools, then change them.  
That's the manipulation technique used by bad parents who want to coerce 
their 
child into dressing for the hated visit to Anut Petunia by engaging them with 
"Do you want to wear the yellow shirt or the blue shirt."  The idea is to put 
the child in the position of having a false choice in the matter, a typical 
schooling technique.  What the child wants is to not go to Aunt Petunia's at 
all.