>Do you people realize how utterly ridiculous you are sounding. I went to
>a three-room rural elementary school. Half my 8th grade class didn't
>even go on to highschool. Only 2 out of 20 of us every went to college.
So things have gotten better? You triumphed over long odds? Things are hopeless in the sticks?
I'm not one for the tale of endless decline, but do you think that crappy mass education has anything to do with the weakness of the U.S. working class?
Doug