My former school praised

In the past, I created a series of posts based off of my schooling history. Each of my schools (with the exception of the school responsible for a monitored homeschooling program) maintained blatantly anti-educational values. Recently, both traditional high schools in my old district, including the school I attended in my Freshman and Sophomore year, made the U.S. News list of best public high schools.

I'm not going to repeat what I already posted with my schooling history. I just want to emphasize one very obvious reality regarding the school district in which I grew up. They were engaged in an all-out war on education. This was constant from Kindergarten through eleventh grade, when I finally fled the traditional model. They have never even acknowledged their enormous problems, and I highly doubt they could have made the changes they desperately needed without anybody noticing. There is no doubt in my mind that they have kept the war going.

The list I saw required several criteria just to be ranked. My former school was not only in the rankings, but they received a silver along with the other traditional high school. The alternative school that I graduated from and was more tolerant of education did not qualify for the rankings. I think it's safe to say that the U.S. News lost a lot of credibility.

I hesitate to say which schools I attended since all indications have been that the problems I encountered were widespread. I spent one year in a community college as part of the Running Start program and had the exact same problems.

The idea that both traditional high schools in such a corrupt and destructive school district could make their list says a lot, and none of it is good. I guess this can be viewed as a lesson for other schools. If you want your school to be considered one of the better public schools, fight education at all costs. You will be praised for it.