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If you withdraw your child from a particular public school because you do not like it, that doesn't improve the public school. In fact, it might make that public school worse, because you no longer have any incentive to work to improve that public school.
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I'm not willing to sacrifice my child on the altar of good intentions. I had to withdraw my child from public school because of an abusive teacher. I attempted to rectify the situation and learned that the public school administration wasn't interested in providing a safe place for children to learn. It meant more to them to protect their abusive teacher.

If the public schools were actually interested in parental involvement and improving the environment for children, it might be worthwhile to stick around. As it stands, the relationship is entirely one-sided and the only power I had as a parent was to pull my child and make alternate arrangements for his education.[/quote]

We came very close to doing that, but the public school ultimately listened to us and transferred our child to a new teacher who was not abusive.

When public school teachers and administrators post on DCUM, however, their disdain for parents is often thinly veiled.  They are held accountable for performance, but that's often about it, and they will circle the wagons fast and furiously around colleagues who humiliate and abuse children in their classrooms.  It is quite distressing, and they are aided and abetted by some parents, who adopt a "Lord of the Flies" attitude about the whole situation because they own children are not the targets of a teacher's abuse.  And this is probably more rampant in the "good" school pyramids, because the administrators can take credit for their high-achieving students and ignore the misery that some of their teachers inflict.

If we could do it over again, we would likely choose private.   [/quote]

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