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To: John Carragher who wrote (218769)	9/6/2007 12:15:40 PM
From: alanrs	Respond to of 793777

>school systems in this country is based on real estate taxes and if you got money you pay for the best qualified teachers.< Ah, a new subject. We live in Evanston, Illinois, a reasonably upscale town. We pay $5500 per year in real estate taxes on a house we bought 3.5 years ago for $318,000. Most of those taxes (85%?) go to support the public school. My grandson, a reasonable bright, well behaved kid was in third grade last year and there was a big push to have the kids prepared for the no child left behind test, especially since the school he is at did not pass muster the previous year. Mostly it involved going to an online site in the evening and doing quizzes linked to simple video games. Very effective and very engaging for Jon. He finished all the third grade stuff and his teacher told him to go on to the fourth grade stuff, which he did. The test came and went. Homework for Jon stopped. He had no homework the last 3 months of the year. Anyway, long story short. I should take a typing class. Jon was not allowed to transfer to a different school within the district where he might be challenged. He is in Catholic school this year, (tuition $6600). I am not going to take any swipes at the teachers or the school board, although I could. They are, I am sure, doing the best they can with what they've got within the parameters being laid out. Other parents have enrolled their kids in summer school so as to cover the gaps. And, yes, the school did pass muster this past year. Everyone coming out of that school will be able to make change when working the register at McDonalds (not that there's anything wrong with that!). I may be wrong, but I don't see a lot of future Nobel prize winners in physics coming out of such a system. Ain't PC land grand. ARS