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To: JohnM who wrote (116153)	7/22/2009 9:57:16 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) of 542024

yup Everyone wants a magic bullet, just like everyone wants a magic pill to make them well. Very few people want to do the day in day out work of eating well (and not too much) and exercising, and avoiding dangerous substances, and very few people want to put in the hours it takes to have an excellent school- from the parents, who need to back up their kids at home, and participate in school in an intelligent way, to teachers who see the job as some easy sinecure, to administrators who aren't capable or committed. There are truly great public schools out there- but for the most part they are in areas of affluence, and it's parents who generally demand the excellence. Some people seem to believe the public schools have no "customer", but they do, The area in which a school is located is its customer base, and with a motivated populace schools will change. Most areas get the schools they deserve- it's just that to break the cycle of ignorance you need to give some areas better schools than the people in the area demand - which is structurally a very difficult thing to do. But I'm sure you know all that already.

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