Thug is the new Nigg**!!

[chervilant]

473. Calhoun's seminal study (mid 60s)

of public education found that family and friends were the two most important variables in predicting academic success (these results were subsequently perverted, but that's another subject for another time). Children whose families stress education can achieve a decent education, but the best education available is predominantly available to the children of the wealthiest among us.

It is a fallacy to assert that our "government" determines what our system of public education "produces." Corporate megalomaniacs have long held sway over education, just as they've held sway over our media, our politics, and our global economy--not the least because our economic behaviors have become the definition of who we are. Regimented, compliant workers are, perforce, the outcome of our system of public education. I encourage you to watch Sir Ken Robinson for more about how our system of public eduation du jour primarily spits out factory fodder and service industry drones.