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Those of you who mention having a great school district. I can totally understand the reasoning behind going ahead and sending your child to the public school.
Unfortunately, in my town we have only 2 small parochial schools. I have been involved in both of those as well as taught art in the public schools. My neighbor children and a couple children that I watch after school have related enough information to me to add to my knowledge of the schools already. I know my current public school system stinks. One neighbor girl who is quite bright has come to me for help with fractions. She is in 5th grade and doesn't know half of her multiplication tables and has not had much division - yet she's doing fractions. Major problem there. This is not the only incident I've seen showing a lack in educational quality.
The school district recently consolidated most of their public schools into one school. There are now only 3 main schools in town. Between those schools they manage to make the children from my area change between 3 busses to just get to school in the morning. Our town is only about 8 miles long and 2 miles wide.
Also the lower elementary students have to eat their lunch at 10:30 am so that the older students can eat theirs at 11:30. !0:30 sounds too early for me. When the kids get to my place after school they are begging for food because they are hungry. I've heard this from the children and the parents so I know it's not just the kids trying to get sympathy from me.
With this kind of system I cannot imagine sending my daughter to the public school.
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