[CGTRWK]

Like any huge organization, public schools are no longer run by people. Staff at any level do not act like people or use judgement, they are "administrators" and their job is to impersonally administrate a rulebook hammered out by activist committees in the state capitol or Washington.

As this kid just found out, rulebooks have no flexibility, no sense of humor, and no proportion. As these news stories have shown again and again, they can't differentiate a fishstick from a handgun, an aspirin from a vicodin, or now a bag of sweetener from cocaine.

Yeah it's crazy. Public schools are an increasingly homogenous 560 billion dollar a year industry. All you can do is try to keep your kids the h*ll away from them.

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Yeah it's crazy. Public schools are an increasingly homogenous 560 billion dollar a year industry. All you can do is try to keep your kids the h*ll away from them. CGTRWK

CGTRWK,

Ike Eisenhower coined the phrase "Military Industrial Complex."

I call the government schools "The Education Industrial Complex". In the county in which I formerly lived in Maryland, the government schools were the largest employer in the county. Do you think you will ever see vouchers or tax credits in that county? Fat chance!