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Originally Posted by Bill O'Rights
And here's where we part company. Public...private...shouldn't matter. If the public schools could do as good or better than the private schools, then there will not be the "exodus" that you predict. Right now...today...private schools have learned to do more with less because they have to. When public schools learn to do the same, then there would be an even playing field.
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There will never be an even playing field between public and private school. Both you and will have avoided mentioning one key difference between the two--private schools get to take who they want, and public schools have to take everyone.
Everyone--even the medically fragile handicapped kid who is more or less a vegetable in a wheelchair. And some of those handicapped kids even have to sit through the same standardized tests as the rest of the school. Gee, I wonder what that does to the scores? Oh, and if a parent decides that the public school is not doing a good enough job of meeting their child's special ed needs--guess what? The public school district has to foot the bill for that special needs child to then go to a special private school for special needs kids.
I'm not saying that the mentally handicapped don't deserve an education, but we should seriously reevaluate our special education policies, how we administer special education, and how we can best balance the needs of the school at large with the needs of the special education program.