Half A Billion Blog Posts Later, Google To Give Blogger A Revamp
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If they do this, they will have an excellent platform that developers may consider returning to.
The average blog post is ~1000 words? I would have guessed way shorter. The majority of posts I read are shorter.
In some of your other posts, you've said that you support universal public education, but that seems to directly contradict the statement you've made here.
Government schools have no competition, at least where I live. When I was a child, my parents paid taxes, which paid for government schools. They had no choice but to send me to terrible schools because they couldn't afford anything else after paying their taxes (my parents were not rich).
Attempts to compete against government schools are always rebuffed by people as being "against public education". So which is it? Competition is always good or government schools are somehow sacrosanct, or neither?
Back to education and government. You are already blaming your paying taxes as a culprit for you attending bad government school. What proof do you have to back up your allegation? What if there was no public school and less government taxes and still no private school to provide you education? Do you think private schools are only going to crop up because government isn't charging more taxes? What guarantee is there that you'd have a good private school in the absence of any public school? Blaming taxes for all the ills of the government is a myth propagated by one of the political party. Check out the countries where there are no government schools of any quality (because people don't pay taxes and things are pretty much messed up all around). You'd be glad you attended public school in America irrespective of the quality compared to many other countries of the world.
I served 11.5 years in a government school (not the customary 13 because I was able to graduate early). My time there was awful. I would have learned more just by staying at home!
Government school didn't even help with getting into college. I had a D average in high school, so I privately educated myself for a few years in all kinds of ways, and got into a very nice university (and maintained a 3.89 gpa in a science major). So that's how I know government school is useless.
On top of that, my mother was a government school teacher. The horror stories she has about the way they run things are awful. This was all in the the strongest teacher's union state in the country (WI), which made the problem even worse. (When teachers want to set up a system to rate each other so that better teachers earn more money, the union throws such a fit that the plan never gets heard. When teachers want to teach foreign languages before or after school, the government school administrators throw a fit and shut it all down. This could not happen at a private school.)