From: user6340@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   JTEM  posted:   
   > On 2/13/26 2:02 PM, Steven Douglas wrote:   
   >   
   > > No, it's actually quite relevant since my public   
   > > education   
   >   
   >      ...is irrelevant.   
   >   
   > We are speaking of the present.   
      
   I'm comparing the past to the present.   
   >   
   > >> You want to claim that public education is broken   
   > >   
   > > You still haven't even bothered to look at the   
   > > test scores of our students through the years   
   > > after the corrupt Democratic Party instituted   
   > > that crappy Department of Education on us.   
   >   
   > So the Department of Education is (was?) radioactive,   
   > and this radiation permeated every classroom in America,   
      
   You cited all the mandates that you say ruined   
   public schools. What other government department   
   could have done that, other than the one that was   
   all about "education"?   
   >   
   > and simply by existing it lowered test scores...   
      
   Sheesh, will you educate yourself and look at what   
   happened to test scores after the Department of   
   Education was inflicted on the country by the   
   corrupt Democratic Party?   
   >   
   > No. Sorry. Ain't buying it.   
   >   
   > And what's so funny is that you carry on as if you   
   > identified "The" problem with our public schools!   
      
   Tell me again about the "mandates" that YOU said   
   were put on public schools? Now you're denying   
   what you said previously?   
      
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