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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's compassionate about making a kid commute 2+ hours a day on a failing transit system to attend Deal?  Over the course of a school year that child could have received the equivalent of 3 weeks more school instruction at their neighborhood school.  Enough with these OOB band aid solutions and let's fix the EocTP schools already![/quote]

Agreed, but it is not the responsibility of parents to "fix" a school, much less an entire school system. Parents want the best for their kids and many are willing and some are as to help out directly in supporting schools. However it is the PROFESSIONAL educators and administrators ---people who have studied education and make their livelihoods in that space--who must fix the schools. It is absurd to put the fixing on the backs of parents. In what other profession are the customers expected to do all the work and devise all the solutions? In other fields customers make demands and if they don't get the product or service they desire they shop elsewhere...same with our schools...my local school stinks...well, we'll go charter or elsewhere.  But you're not going to put the responsibility to fix my local school squarely in my lap, challenging me to risk my child's only shot at education and childhood on a crap shoot. I will pull my weight, I will be engaged, but I won't be forced or shamed into taking on a job that is not mine. [/quote]

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