Ghostsniper brayed:

Hey, Mav;

Hola, amigo. I hear you are in some need of fire support.

Actually MAV is capable of providing plenty of fire. Just very little in the way of light. I see you're from the same school.

Strangely, I seem to recall that the title of this area had to do with music; yet all I seem to be seeing is a bunch of twisting-in-the-wind leftists seeing red that their boy, AlGore, didn't get elected and cause another shooting war in this country.

Golly, I haven't seen anyone mention Al Gore in .... I think you're the first, come to think of it. Which makes me think you really haven't read the thread before commenting on it, which makes me think you're an idiot.

That at least one person in here, an admitted "proud" socialist (isn't that an oxymoron?) is a teacher in a pub- lic school pretty much explains why the system has failed so miserably over the past couple of decades. I've seen schools in Third World countries that had a better stan- dard of education than a lot of the public schools here.

Not used to word-wrap, are you? Ah, so you're saying the system has "failed so miserably" (does that mean it succeeded?) because of the existence of one socialist teacher? We aren't arguing that there are problems with the public schools. We all agree on that. If you had read the thread, you would have noticed that. Your "third world" comment is therefore just so much ignorant flaming. The question is on how to fix them. MAV thinks the best way to make the public schools better is to take money away from them. We disagree.

Some of these people are also, obviously, products of that system and the outcome-based bull utilised therein.

Ah. More insults, but still nothing of any substance. No wonder you choose "Ghostsniper" as your nickname.

Far be it from me to tell you what to do, but I'd humbly ask that you either contribute to the conversation, or go away.

Thanks.