Re: Sub-Mental Retards - a Modern Industry - part 3

[Person009]

I'm terrible at math.

[rguy84]

lol aw

[MrCropper]

You say the government schools are 'federally mandated" to do such and such (doesn't matter what it is, fill in the blank).

My ultimate point is that the free market would do it better. Many a philosopher has argued this. Among them, Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff, and Milton Freidman, as well as author and one-time teacher John Taylor Gatto, author of "Dumbing Us Down" - Rudolph Flesch, author of "Why Johnny Can't Read" - and Sheldon Richman, "Seperating School and State" - as well as many more.

[rguy84]

A free market is better in some situations, yes. For education, no not at all. Although I have the ability to construct thought, and fairly complex arguments, I would have been put in classes I could not expand, and grow. But between the federal law, and my mother, who advocated until I was given the education I deserved, I was able to be in regular ed. Talk to any special ed teacher, almost all would say they'd prefer having the ability to get their students up to the level of the average

[rguy84]

student, but that student just doesn't have the ability to take math 101, or whatever. There are people who can write 20 page essays, but can't get past college algebra. Are these people "semi/sub-retarded"?