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by David Safier

Stop the presses, and stop bad mouthing public schools. Our graduates are so well trained, productivity just jumped almost 10%.

What's that? You say there's no direct connection between schooling and productivity? Then why was everyone beating up me and my fellow teachers in the 80s when productivity was down? If it was teachers' and schools' faults then, I claim the right to declare increased productivity an educational success. The school critics can't have it one way and not the other.

I still remember . . . "Our high school graduates are so dumb, they have to dumb down the workplace for them.