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I think the answer depends largely on parents and teachers. Children can learn in the public school system but only with supportive parents and teachers.

Educate!

They can be spectacular schools. They can also be horrible schools.

Got an inner city highschool gets fail grades since no child left behind. Lots of lawyers, etc still send their kids. They have a great AP section.

They're Government education centers for indoctrination. Then there's the anti-American, Communist led, Teacher's unions that have great influence on the corrupt Department of Education.

Neither. Some indoctrination, but mostly day care.

My school consists of little teaching and a bunch of evaluating.

Our schools are far from perfect but I wouldn't call them daycares or babysitters.

I'm going to hope it "day care" because quality Early Childhood Education philosophy would do WONDERS for our K-12 system

If you have an independent mind, it can be a place of learning. You learn the other side's arguments and how to pick them apart. If you speak up, you learn how to speak publicly and hold your own in a debate. And they have other resources to use too.

More indoctrination than anything.