Good point about the billions upon billions wasted in the failed inner city public schools.

But what about those highly successful public schools in the more affluent areas? You know, those neighborhoods where home prices are at a premium because everyone wants their children to attend a “good” school. Those are public schools too.

How can the same public school system produce such varied schools? Perhaps, and I’m just supposing here, it’s not the school system, but the stratification of American society. Perhaps education, and the value thereof, starts in the home. Perhaps America, unlike most Western countries to which it is compared, has the enormous task of educating the children of a huge non-native speaking, non-tax contributing, third world immigrant population.

Perhaps, and again this is just a guess on my part, if one just looked at the public schools in middle and upper class neighborhoods, America’s public school system would rival that of any nation. In fact our very public university system is already the best in the world. How can we have the best public university system in the world, but the worst public secondary system in the world?

Maybe there’s nothing wrong with public schools. Maybe they just reflect back what is wrong with society.