[toenail]

"I dislike the tone of some of the pro-homeschool articles that seem to imply that all public schools are run by evil people looking to deliberately dumb-down kids."

That's exactly what the system was designed to do.

[concerned about politics]

"I dislike the tone of some of the pro-homeschool articles that seem to imply that all public schools are run by evil people looking to deliberately dumb-down kids."

Ever wonder why the name of the program continues to change but the program itself never does? Outcome Based Education was seen as a failure. They changed the name to Goals 2000 and to Education Reform. Darn! Busted again, twice more!
Now it's "Testing Education."
Parents aren't stupid ( well, not all of them). The parents are loosing their Orwells puppies to this "new society " indoctrination, and they know it!
It's not the individual schools, It's the entire NEA program.