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A couple of examples
Posted by: Hugh Morris ( Howard Stern Society, USA ) on February 16, 1999 at 17:46:46:
In Reply to: Examples? posted by Shaun on February 16, 1999 at 11:56:17:
Private schools have one thing going for them that the public schools don't--they can expell disruptive students that really shouldn't be there. I can tell you that it's nearly impossible to do such a thing in public school; they have to let the expelled student back in next year. As a result, the public schools have a few disruptive students bringing test scores down, and making it harder for the motivated ones to learn. That seems to be one thing overlooked by today's advocates of issuing publicly-funded vouchers to parents to send their children to private school. In time, the public schools would become little more than a dumping ground for the poorest students.A better example is a fellow I knew in high school. It took him six years to get through four, and they graduated him at age 21, at which time hw would have had to attend night school. When he signed my yearbook, I knew why--it looked like a five-year-old wrote it. I guess he somehow got through the early years without being relegated to the remedial courses, and wasn't learning anything the rest of the time, so the only thing left for the administration to do with him was to give up. As a result, everyone will eventually earn a high school diploma if they keep at it long enough, so it means nothing. Lastly, the biggest operator of private schools in the US today is the Catholic church. Now, don't you think they have an agenda that's apart from education?
WCW's Laughing Man,
Hugh Morrus
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