re: 9 reasons why public educ fails

It depends almost entirely on where you go to public school.

I went to school in an affluent district, had excellent teachers and coaches, good community support and most importantly an excellent AP program. I got a lot out of public school.

If you go to school in an urban district or a very rural one, odds are your experience was quite different.

My issue with the video is mostly its point about "indoctrination". In the context of public school discussion (at least in the south) the idea of indoctrination covers two concepts: Liberal social ideology and evolution. This is what parents who make this complaint are always implying.

Now, the former is certainly true in some schools but is largely teacher dependent. The latter is simply something people will have to get over or go the homeschool route. The fact is though that I never experienced some liberal ideological indoctrination in school, and such a thing is far more prevalent in college than grade school. Plenty of students experience no liberal indoctrination until they reach college in fact. Most conservative/liberal flips happen after high school.