David Ben Ariel always makes excellent posts.
My opinion is that it's impossible to fix the public school system and they must be destroyed.
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I had a life changing event happen to me at public school. My family was originally from the Midwest. I grew up in a mostly white Protestant community. It was safe and clean. The people were very respectable. During my teens, my Dad had to move to Las Vegas for his job. At the time, I was a perfect straight A student and always tested in the 99% of my county. I never got in trouble, never smoked, never drank, never messed around with bad girls. My goal was to work hard and get into an IVY league school and all of my teachers thought that was possible.
My cousin, who also lived in the midwest, was exactly like me.
But, in Vegas, I was forcibly bussed from my white neighborhood into a black ghetto school. They changed the school district zoning laws halfway through my high school years. It was like hell on earth. I had never experienced gangsterism. Guys attacking girls sexually in the hallways. Drugs everywhere. Guns, knives...you name it. Kids were beating up other kids in the hallway and stealing everything in sight.
When I would complain to my parents about the situation... they would call me a "racist." When I would complain to other kids about the situation...they would call me a "racist." The teachers, of course, hated teaching at the school and there was no education taking place.
By the time I was a senior..I had started failing classes. I HATED SCHOOL and I was completely suicidal. My hair had grown long down to my back, I used to hang out with a dude named Carl with a red mohawk and body piercings and pentagram tattoos. The only thing I cared about was listening to Death Metal.
Meanwhile, my cousin that was still in the Midwest graduated the top of his class. He went to study at Columbia and a few other top tier schools. He is now a surgeon.
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Now that I look back on my life, I realize that the public schools destroyed me. They robbed me of opportunity and killed my spirit. But, the experience also turned me into the BIGGEST right winger that ever walked the earth. On the contrary, my cousin turned into a liberal. He was brainwashed in the IVY league schools that he attended.
NOW - I'm the eternal enemy of the multi-culturalists and socialists. Someday, I'm going to get my revenge on the socialists. They owe me (and I ain't talkin' bout money)
Just a few more years to wait