Vonz90 wrote:
The problem that the parents/kids in this school have is that they do not have the ability to pull the kids and send them to a better one. There is no market pressure on the staff and there are no options for the students/parents. The worst of both worlds.
Quite true. That particular school is failing because of the way it's run, according to liberal orthodoxy. Schools can fail other ways, that's just the way *this* one is failing.
But things do have a tendency to fail, being run by humans and all. The only proper response is to be able to route around the failure, and let the failure wither and die. Monopoly public schools are VERY bad in principle simply because they are monopolies and give you no option to route around failure.
Only two things you can do (short of homeschooling or paying private school tuition, which are not always practical options). Push for vouchers, and/or move to where the schools haven't failed yet (then get as active as you can in that school system to try to prevent failure).
It's not ideal, but it's what we have right now.
The thing of it is, after a certain age, your children's peers have as much influence on your kids as you do. However, you still control who those peers are; or at least you can if you try.
You Have No Idea.
I have stories. They're not pretty. Some of my more complacent liberal friends (who don't have kids) don't BELIEVE them.
Nevertheless, there are very very good reasons why we left Jersey when we did.
Maybe we're just jaded, but your villainy is not particularly impressive. -Ennesby
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