Reply to Julie Williams's post: Thank you for your example using your husband. I can relate as I see using technology can speed up the process. I'm processing what you meant by the legitimacy of public education. I am a product of public education when it was structured for success for each cohort of students. After mandated integration things changed and when Caucasian parents would not send their children to inner-city schools, that was the star of the changing curriculum of the schools. Prior each school had a curriculum that included college-bound, arts bound, a career in office education, or distributive education. Additional courses in woodshop, homemaking, etc. Thereby, each student regardless of their GPA had a place to become a productive citizen. The inner city schools became speciality schools e.g. college-bound, art focus and then the parents sent their children to the now prestigious schools in the inner city.
The US is one of the few countries that have free education. I hope it is revamped and not lost to the private sector.
