MY assumptions are right on the money fishspoon...Everyone with a working brain who has ever considered the issue knows that the left needs the public school system to plant their seeds of liberal nonsense and progressive blather or they would likely cease to exist in a matter of decades. The reason test scores in the USA lag behind alot of the rest of the world is because public schools spend too much time indoctrinating and not enough time teaching. I was lucky enough to not be subjected to the public school system and my personal feeling is that its tantamount to child abuse to send a child through the public system. I would pick up pop cans along the freeway to pay for a private school education for my children before I subjected them to the public learning quagmire that we call public education today