Hi Kriston, my original glass half full comment, which got us into this discussion, was in response to this:
As I told a couple of friends here in a PM, put a fancy bow on nothing and you've still got nothing. I think most of our schools offer--at best!--fancy bows. I think we tend to get very wrapped up in worrying about the bows and acquiring the bows and arranging the bows. But underneath? Nada.
I want more from our education system.
Where's the beef?!
(My new battle cry!)
I guess that sounded pretty harsh to me. My DS gets a lot more than "nada" from the public school, as did I, and millions and millions of others.
I was glad to see you say this:
And I'm not angry. Maybe frustrated. But not angry.
I, too, am grateful for what I have. I am glad that we have a working public school system. I think it's important, and I value it.
We all have moments of frustration. I do understand that. But to disparage "most schools" in the US (in a pretty public place, which this is) as just bows on a box of nothing was entirely too much for my sense of justice. I just wanted to pull you back from the edge before it was too late
