[TalonDJ]

95%+ of our Armed Forces are public school graduates.

Gee, do you think that might be because more than 95% of everyone in the US was public educated. That is a meaningless statistic. Yeah public schools are not totally worthless, or they did not use to be... there is a huge difference in the quality of what they teach now from what there was 20, 40, or 60 years ago. The decline has been a steady trend.

[justshutupandtakeit]

"The decline has been a steady trend." That is simply false.

Chicago has many great schools and is surrounded by suburds which have terrific schools. And they teach more advance subjects than ever.

Most of the problems at the others are the result of Social problems rather than educational failures per se.