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As an individual who has gone through the California’s public education system, I can attest for its deficiencies; But I’ve also come to accept the fact that our public education system (K-12, community colleges, and the CSU system—not including Berkeley) is perhaps inferior on purpose in comparison with private educational institutions (could this be an example of vertically differentiated products? Probably not) anyway, my point is I got what I paid for…or not paid for.

Since the geographical location of where I lived had determined where I had gone to school (K-12), it’s arguable that there is a correlation between income and successful educational attainment. According to yahoo finance, my city is listed as one of the “15 US cities with most murders last year” (ignoring the fact that I did not provide data and for the sake of argument, lets agree there’s some sort of correlation between poverty, number of murders, and the quality of schools). What is Prop 13? (A student of public education told me its bad)

Btw, I hear over in France, public schools—the equivalent to California’s K-12—are presumably better than private ones and if I’m not mistaken, not everyone can attend France’s public schools; I believe you have to show competency in order to get admitted. My point is there’s a standard that they must uphold unlike with our K-12 or CSU system (perhaps its a reasonable byproduct of California’s history) I believe the idea is this: “getting an “education” is a Californian’s right regardless if you develop competency of not”. Of course, there’s that laziness mentality problem that spreads in the K-12 system. (I’ve experienced it so I should know. Hell, I should be so lucky to have gotten the “education” that I got)

I admit that despite the fact that this system has more or less made me into the person I am today, ceteris paribus (did I use that right?) I agree that there are a number of problems associated with this system. Thus, when I had asked my previous question, I was really looking for a solution to: what can I do to compensate for what I did not learn? (In a general sense, no malice intended)

I would theorize that print, the Internet and social media outlets such as twitter and Facebook would also pose the problem of propaganda. Though, it would be difficult and somewhat impractical to avoid the overall media in our modern society. (i.e. the rise of smartphones, tablets, social media, and etc)

Because I am the product of public education, please be tolerant for my occasional writing and logic related errors. On the bright side, this will help to reinforce the truth that “some Californian students are unable to read, write, research, do math, or make logical arguments” or in my case, have done it very poorly. (Maybe it’s not too late for me to change but then I’m sure there are some who might feel that stupidity is a necessary evil)

If you simply are ignorant, that’s easy to fix. Go take a couple of economics courses. Tip: when thinking about a course, look at the textbook. If there are more than 2 color pictures on each page and no equations or graphs, you have not found a real economics course. I also recommend any science course — even physics appreciation is good. And there’s tons of readable material out there.

But I suspect your question is not serious (you forgot the tag, btw). In which case you are simply stupid. Sadly, as far as I know, there’s no cure for stupid.