[PHSForever]

I graduated from a fine Catholic high school and have three college degrees, all from the University of Kentucky (a decent but far from great taxpayer subsidized university), including a doctorate in a professional field but you are the one who brought it up and, really, degrees shouldn't impress anyone.

I reread my posts and failed to find where I stated that private schools are better than government schools. However, I do believe, as do most, that private schools offer a better learning environment than the government schools simply because private schools can be selective in who is admitted to those schools. Government schools must take all comers- including habitual troublemakers and the like. That is not being "snobbish". That is merely stating a fact.

Further, private schools, by not being under the stern thumb of state and federal "educators", can emphasize the traditional skills- comprehensive reading, proper grammar (the government schools seem to have forgotten that proper use of grammar is essential for true education), mathematics, and history (as it really happened and not slanted for political correctness).

Finally, and I could list scores of other differences, while the private schools can and do emphasize traditional values as an essential part of a traditional education, your government schools are all caught up in demands for social engineering and social manipulation.

I'm not saying private schools are better. I am just saying that, overall, I believe their approach produces a better finished product.

Haha. Tomahto tomayto. A "better finished product" is nothing more than code speak for "we turn out better people". If you can't at least be honest enough to admit that all your posturing on here has, at its core, implied or been meant to imply, that private schools are better, then you are hopeless or delusional.

As for bringing up my degrees, I only did so not to impress you, but to reassure you that "I is a fine graduate of one of them thar guvmint schools and still found a way to hang a purity sheepskin on my wall, hyuck", since you have done nothing more than sully every single public or independent school in the state with your overly generic statements. With your "habitual troublemakers" post, are you implying none exist in private schools? If so, believe me, you are hiding under a rock.

Interesting you have failed to respond to my point regarding parental involvement. Am I to take it, based on the lack of a response to that, along with your statement that private school environments are more conducive to providing a better education, that you feel the onus is solely on educators to motivate and educate, and that parents should yield to a teacher's efforts in educating a child and not get involved?

Finally, as I have pointed out, and you have conveniently ignored, even private schools, in order to get and maintain accreditation, must meet/conform to a minimum of state standards. While they can exceed those standards and even do, in many cases, they are not perfect, nor always the perfect solution.

Congratulations on your impressive academic achievements. I'm guessing, since you have 3 degrees from that fine taxpayer subsidized university, you decided to slum it after the rigors of your high school years. How positively Saint Galgani of you.