There are no private schools within 50 miles of here, and everyone goes to the same school. And I beleive that that is how you teach them to swim, throw them in the water. Humans have the instinct to know how to swim. It's how the indians taught the young braves to swim. It's how I was taught to swim. If they have trouble, you can always help them, but they'll learn faster that way, and they'll learn better. But that's beside the point. I care aboot kids, I wouldn't want any harm to come to them. Exactly why I do like all the other generations of me family, and send them to a public school. Ignorant? Selfish? No sir, not when we do the best we can to afford to eat day to day, until the harvest comes in, it is simply we can't afford something that costs more than a good mule team. And will leave them worse off than not going to school. Those private schools don't teach important things, like how to plant by the signs, when to harvest, how to take care of horses, how to take care of livestock, proper English, the sciences, the classics, how to cut lumber, how build, how to fix car engines, how to run a home network system, how to repair a computer. I learned all that and more in me school, and it was public. So we live old fashioned, no reason to call us ignorant. Maybe if the rest of the world lived old fashioned, it would be more peacefull, cause there hasn't been any serious crime by the locals, the only crime is from the construction crew workers and others like that who just go through town and leave, they know they will be harder to find. It's very peacefull here, I wouldn't want to live anywhere else.
