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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Neighborhood schools have always been a huge driver of school mediocrity because [b]they never had to care [/b]about actually meeting student needs. The only thing they had to do was throw the doors open and students would be required to show up no matter how good or bad the school is. They were the only game in town and held the monopoly on education. They never had to worry about competing for kids, they never had to worry about retaining kids,[b] it was just "tough luck, take it or leave it.[/b]" What a lousy model. That's how we ended up with privates, parochials, and now charters. Traditional public schools have never understood what families actually want or care about.[/quote]

Not true.  It depended on the neighborhood and how involved the parents were.  There was a lot of caring where I grew up.  I had a great neighborhood public school.  They were not the only game in town (there were privates and parochials despite you thinking that those are more recent things).  You know why they cared?  Because the teachers lived right in the neighborhoods with us.  We knew them, their kids, etc.  They played on the same teams with us, ate at the same restaurants, went to the same weddings and funerals, shopped at the same stores, went to the same churches, and so on.  Heck, I used to see my teachers at the lake, at the gas station, etc.  They read the same newspapers where every year they listed kids who went to college, kids who got scholarships, kids who went to service academies.  When kids won competitions, they were in the paper.  People were proud to be part of a school where good things were happening for kids.  The teachers and staff wanted the same things we wanted---good schools and opportunity.  They did not treat us like "tough luck" at all.  We were part of a community and that mattered.  Now that has been torn apart so the feds use "sticks" to try to get people to be "better".  It works so much better.  [/quote]

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