Can't say that I agree with you fully and to be honest I think you are way off base regarding racial profiling. Public schools are there for the masses. They can not simply change their rule and curriculum for every individual student, the logistics of that would be a total nightmare! Yes, children are individuals and every child learns at his/her own pace, there are programs in underfunded public schools that address these differences, i.e. IEP programs, programs for non-english speaking children, IB programs for those that excel.

I'm going to list just a few things in opposition to your list above;

*Schools have not taken the responsibility of educating children away from the parent, rather, the parents have given up their responsibility and lazily handed it over to the public school system to not just teach the 3 r's but to teach their children how to behave and what is right and wrong, how to respect adults and other people and their property and good manners, the list goes on…. things better left to responsible parents to teach their children from the minute they are born.

*Being educated in this country should be considered a privilege for the law-abiding, well-behaved, motivated, interested individual citizen's in our society, not a right for the thugs that are not interested or motivated to receive it in the first place and spend their time disrupting classrooms and bullying students making the learning environment a negative place for those that WANT to learn.

*Where should chldren be educated publically? They can be educated at home in front of a computer (IF they can afford one and put importance on owning one)by one of the many homeschools or perhaps even by a program of the public school itself. However, learning the needed social skills that are a part of public education is important.

*English is our national language, why should public education and our tax dollars be spent on hiring teachers for every school to teach a child in his own language other than English? If parents want public education they'll have to come to terms with this issue.

*As for cultural differences, if something is disruptive to the rest of the school or denotes a dangerous concept like gang attire, why should it be accepted in a school. They have dress codes for valid reasons. Gang attire is not a culture but a symbol of violence, illegal activities, disrespect for life, drugs; none of which are conducive to a educational environment where children learn.

*I can't think of any school since I was in Junior High School and the Principal could paddle our butts if we disobeyed school rules (and which was outlawed in public schools many moons ago)that uses corporal punishment.

*What type of curriculum should a school use? It must be controlled since there are rules, regulations, governing bodies (school boards) all deciding the curriculum for over crowded and underfunded schools and classrooms. There are minimum standards expected now of schools and their are forced to teach a curriculum dictated to them from the governing bodies.

*Parents and the community are invited to get involved in their childrens schools via school board meetings, PTA, volunteering at the school, representation, etc. Unfortunately the percentage that actually do get involved is low and the citizens within a community that have no school age children are not interested.

*It truly disturbs me when a segment of society won't take responsibility for their own predicament and spends countless amounts of wasted energy blaming the "system" or others for what really is their own. Schools are only reacting to the huge upsurge in school violence by doing whatever they can to remove the thugs that shouldnt be their in the 1st place.

I totally agree with all of your 11 points.