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Old 01-11-2007, 02:37 PM   #9
piercehawkeye45
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Originally Posted by Beestie View Post
And it kind of kills me to hear the argument: why should a bright kid be forced to stay in a bad public school when the state could send him to a good private school? Some might worry about the one bright kid in a bad school. I worry about the 99 kids behind the bright kid that no one seems to care about. The bright kid should stay and the 99 kids who've been cheated of a quality education should be sent to private school to catch up.
Of course that is perferable but that won't happen. Inner city schools are just on a downward spiral with multiple reasons why they are failing. I don't see how switching the 99 kids would solve anything because you don't fix the source of the problem. Plus, I would like to find a private school that would accept those 99 kids. The way I'm looking at it is that I would rather save one or two kids instead of having them all fail. Saving them all would obviously be the best idea but it is not an option.
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