"DSK" wrote

http://edu.sina.com.cn/en/2005-02-07/30576.html
Public schools are supposed to remove barriers so people can
succeed.

Nowadays, public schools are an alternative to juvenile detention
centers, where young people from the lower classes with no hope are
contained temporarily before releasing them into the unskilled labor
pool and/or a life of petty crime.

One can get a very good education from a public school if one applies
himself. Parents that care are a big help. It's there for the taking,
but you have to want it.

Scotty