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I'll review all of the negative points
::: Oh? What is this alarming percentage? [[User:IndianaJ|IndianaJ]] 14:30, 4 May 2008 (EDT)
::: Oh? What is this alarming percentage? [[User:IndianaJ|IndianaJ]] 14:30, 4 May 2008 (EDT)
== I'll review all of the negative points ==
Why don't I review some of the other points?
* a lack of commitment to respect the religious civil rights of students has resulted in "religion-free zones."
Not at my school. We are pretty tolerant to anyone's religious beliefs. Even when teaching evolution, our teachers clearly tell us that it may or may not be true and that we just have to understand it, not believe it.
* sex education, homosexual curriculum and sexual abuse by school personnel has been referred to as a "red-light district" for students
We had a brief sexual education assembly, but it mostly talked about STDs and that protection does not always work. The only time that I can remember talking about homosexuality in class was when we were learning about the civil rights movement of the 1960s. There have been no reports of sexual abuse at our school as long as I have gone there. A few years after I left my middle school a teacher was accused by a student of accessing pornography using a school computer, but they couldn't find any proof of it.
* a culture of incompetence
I don't know what you mean by that, nor do I care
* fashion that includes black (Goth) clothing
Black is a popular color for clothing, but there are only about 3 goths at our school
facial piercings and rings, tattoos, and male earrings
I don't notice many facial piercings or tattoos, but what is wrong with male earrings?
* depressed demeanors
By this I'm assuming that you mean emos, but they have almost disappeared in the last year
* an absence of objective morality; instead, a principal will say someone 'made the wrong choice'
I have never heard a teacher use that phrase.
* a sense of hopelessness
I'm not sure what is meant by that, but I haven't encountered anything of the sort
* a lack of critical thinking about liberal indoctrination
Totally wrong. My physics teacher (and most of the science teachers) doesn't believe global warming is caused by humans, and is disgusted at the lack of opposition to it in the science world.
* compulsive profanity
This is one that I would have to agree with.
* general inability to look someone in the eye
Maybe, but there are many reasons for that.
* extreme anxiety
Again, I'm not sure what is meant by that or what the causes would be.
* feeling that it is funny to be dumb
I would have to agree with this one too.
* being so accustomed to censorship of ideas that there is genuine surprise when someone actually says something unfamiliar or politically incorrect
Nope, not at all
* lack of awareness that prayer is censored in public schools and that teachers' unions are very liberal
as I said above, we know that mandatory prayer is illegal. I didn't know that the teacher's union is liberal, though.
That is just a summary of my experience in the public school system. I think that it shows that a lot of the points are just presumed and don't really reflect a majority of public schoolers. '''[[user:FernoKlump|<font color="#000066" >FernoKlump</font>]]'''<sup>[[User talk:FernoKlump|<font color="#bd2433" >Leave me a death threat!!]]</font></sup> 14:33, 4 May 2008 (EDT)