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The problem isn't with the govt. They are trying to

Posted on: November 25, 2018 at 09:44:12 CT

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accommodate everyone, so naturally they sort of focus on the middle. The result is that both the gifted students and special needs students get left behind. Private schools basically can self-select their students and teachers, so their students are going to succeed more on average than the public schools.

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Yet another massive fail by the left. - GA Tiger MU - 11/25 08:55:23

I can only speak to Common Core standards for math because - DHighlander KC - 11/25 10:46:24

I can see where math is completely different than - Sarazen MU - 11/25 11:56:54

Your last paragraph is completely accurate - Ferg MU - 11/25 11:19:11

I agree that scientific subjects are handled better . - GA Tiger MU - 11/25 10:48:49

So basically it's an extension of No Child Left Behind - SparkyStalcup MU - 11/25 09:40:35

Which was an extension of the 1965 elementary and - Penske material MU - 11/25 09:47:19

and yet you keep insisting on gvmt-run schools (nm) - pickle MU

- 11/25 09:34:21

The problem isn't with the govt. They are trying to - SparkyStalcup MU - 11/25 09:44:12

True. SN wasn't even a term when I went to school, - GA Tiger MU - 11/25 10:34:14

Actually, they called it remedial or special ed back then. - SparkyStalcup MU - 11/25 10:37:26

They are accommodating their main audience, which are - SparkyStalcup MU - 11/25 10:25:57

you’re digging a deeper hole (nm) - pickle MU

- 11/25 10:28:32

Tell me how private schools would perform better as a whole. - SparkyStalcup MU - 11/25 10:36:30

they already do because of natural market pressures - pickle MU

- 11/25 10:38:46

They self-select students. They succeed because their - SparkyStalcup MU - 11/25 14:34:59

The market pressures are in what form?(nm) - GA Tiger MU - 11/25 10:46:55

Profits and losses, competition, consumer choice, - ummmm MU - 11/25 11:19:03

How would a consumer weigh the relative - GA Tiger MU - 11/25 12:31:18

well you have to start with the assumption - pickle MU

- 11/25 12:33:31

Actually, you don't. If there are no public schools, then - SparkyStalcup MU - 11/25 14:37:59

consumers (nm) - pickle MU

- 11/25 10:48:01

Thanks for clearing it up so thoroughly, with - GA Tiger MU - 11/25 10:50:04

my mistake - pickle MU

- 11/25 10:52:52

? - Newcatbirdseat MU - 11/25 10:23:14

“It’s not gov’t, but it’s gov’t” - MIZ45 MU - 11/25 10:16:59

reread your post (nm) - pickle MU

- 11/25 09:50:36

Wait til the govt takes over healthcare and Sparky is here - ummmm MU - 11/25 09:56:52

But everyone will be equally miserable and to the left, that - hefeweizen MU

- 11/25 10:30:13

Tell me how a private education system succeeds better. - SparkyStalcup MU - 11/25 10:33:16

Because all private entities live and die by success - ummmm MU - 11/25 11:16:44

But now they will have to select students they aren't - SparkyStalcup MU - 11/25 14:36:56

They don't, success in education is about culture - Penske material MU - 11/25 11:15:56

he is easily the most stubborn here - pickle MU

- 11/25 10:01:13

It sounds like the govt is the problem. - ummmm MU - 11/25 09:45:38