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They Love The Football TEAM

The public school?  Not so much.  Never underestimate their capacity for compartmentalization!

Besides, I am, as always where the context warrants it, speaking of conservatives as a political movement, not as individuals.  Individual conservatives can love their local schools, even while the organized movement that speaks in their name wants nothing more than to destroy all such schools.  The more contradictions, the merrier!

In fact, according to some survey results I recall, most people who say that US public schools are failing tend to give their own school higher marks.

This is something I've pointed out repeatedly myself, going back to my earliest days debating wingnuts online in the 1990s.  What it means, quite simply, is that folks always think better of schools the more direct contact they have, and therefore the less influence they've had from the so-called "liberal" media.

The ultimate proof of this is that folks with kids in schools invariably rate the schools higher ("the school your oldest child attends" is a common formulation) than the general populace ("the schools in your community" is typical).

"Senate passes expanded GI bill despite Bush, McCain opposition"

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by: Paul Rosenberg @ Mon Jun 29, 2009 at 13:35:48 PM CDT