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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK
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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (11173)10/25/1998 10:30:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes  Read Replies (1) of 67261
 
>>> So, consequently, all the kids at the private school have their choice of universities because their test scores are really high

Also, their parents are mostly alumni, and can help their kids to get into the same schools much of the time.

FWIW, I don't know what the average private school is like (though I visited the Citadel with an alum friend once), but at my two public high schools we had 5 and 8 merit scholars in one year, respectively.

One of them was a science high school, but the point I am making is that the public schools *used* to be great - private school was where you sent misbehaving rich brats, unless you were part of the old money crowd.

That was changing by the seventies. In California, the Reagan right and then the anti-tax prop 13 killed the public schools. Along with the free university education formerly offered by the state.

Ciao,
Chaz
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