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To: Joe NYC who wrote (130631)	2/2/2013 2:49:08 AM
From: koan	Respond to of 149317

What in hell are you talking about? I live in the capitol of my state. We elect a school board who electes teachers who appoint other teachers, school by school. Totally random and democratic. No monopoly at all. Just the will of our community. No other influence at all. That is as democratic as it gets. My girls and most of my friends kids went on to fine major universities (UC Berkley, U of Oregon and Washinton, medical and law schools, etc, with nothing more than our local public education. So how is that not democratic and how is that shoddy? Then they return and become fine members of our community. You are saying crazy stuff. <<There is absolutely nothing democratic about a monopoly. Public education is a monopoly, it has a monopoly to take money from your pocket for a shoddy product it is selling. The monopoly's number one incentive is to maintain the monopoly, and second, is to extract the most money from your pocket, with minimum of competition or accountability. The charade of democracy and local control is just a system to grease palms of people involved in maintaining the unaccountable monopoly.