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Professor's Chamless findings in Florida are similar to the findings in Montgomery County regarding the widening achievement gap between Asian Americans and all the rest.  I dare say this is true for most States in our Union.

[b][quote]Is it time to think about home schooling your child?[/b]  from EDUCATION NEWS
Posted by or from a variety of publications on EducationViews.org on June 12, 2012 in Blogs, Daily | 0 Comment
[b]By Jack A. Chambless[/b] -[b] For the past 21 years I have taught economics to more than 14,000 college students here in Central Florida.[/b]
During that time I have made a concerted effort to glean information from my Valencia students as to their educational background preceding their arrival in college.
Drawing from a sample size this large multiplied by two decades multiplied by hundreds of thousands of test answers has put me in a good position to offer the following advice to any reader of this paper with children in Florida’s K-12 public schools.
Get them out now before you ruin their life. While this may seem to be a bit harsh, let’s look at the facts.
[b]First, my best students every year are in order — Chinese, Eastern European, Indian and home-schooled Americans, and it is not even close when comparing this group to American public-school kids.
Since it is highly unlikely that any of you plan to move to Beijing, Warsaw or Bangalore, you might want to look at the facts concerning public vs. home-schooled American students.[/b]
(In Florida, more than 60,000 students in about 42,000 families study in home education programs, which meet the requirement for regular school attendance and were protected under state law in 1985.)
All of us have seen or heard about the annual disaster that is called FCAT results. Thanks to government officials in Washington, D.C. and Tallahassee, kids in government-run schools are failing miserably in a wide range of subjects while teachers face bureaucratic nightmares that strip them of their status as professionals and relegate them to servants of standardized testing.
It is also a fact of public education that incidents of bullying, teacher-student sexual misconduct, abusive behavior by teachers and incessant protection of poor teachers by education unions have put students in public schools in the unenviable position of dealing with issues that no learning environment should impose on them.
Moreover, the public education system in Florida and other states is one of the worst forms of monopoly power.[/quote]

[quote]THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU[/quote]
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Er not exactly....  if the argument is that the American school system is what is failing the children of Asian/Eastern European implants will also be brought up in the failed system.  Hence the argument in an earlier post that any advantage Asian immigrants have will diminish over time.

By the way, homeschooling isn't exactly big in China and India....[/quote]

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