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To: Brumar89 who wrote (49170)	7/23/2013 4:21:15 PM
From: FJB	Respond to of 85487

Truly amazing stats.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (49170)	7/24/2013 12:15:57 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 85487

That article is made up stuff: My teacher friends tell me home schooled kids usually are behind the rest of the class in good public schools. Like in my town. But beside that public schools are democratic and devoid of dogma. With public schools the community hires the teachers. What is better than that?????? Who better to pick the teachers than the community? Charter schools are dictatorships or oligarchy's and way too often nothing more than purveyors of dogma like "Christian schools" (an oxymoron IMO). The part below is just plain false made up stuff. I taught for years and spent a long time in school. I nor anyone I know ever voiced the ideas below. Public schools mostly do not fail, but do a good job teaching the kids. Everyone in my extended family went to public schools and are all very well educated. <<Public schools fail mostly because they’re run for the benefit of administrators and teachers, not students, but also because they are so rigid. As long as we have teacher unions, public schools will stink. But if we relax rules and de-emphasize credentials, they wouldn’t stink as much.