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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nobody's stopping you six-figure crybabies from home-schooling your children.[/quote]

Nobody is stopping you from attending your neighborhood school.

And I'll let you in on a secret:   We are already home-schooling our children.  We used to do so full-time when they were toddlers, but now we home-school in the evenings and on weekends.  Why do you think our children do so well in school?

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This comment is key -- an educator once told me that supplemental education (that is, education at home in addition to the core school hours) correlates strongly with culture.  Crudely and generally speaking, white and asian cultures in the U.S. are driven to educate at home because they do NOT expect the school system to do the whole job; whereas other cultures in the U.S. tend to expect "full service" from the school system.  I would like to see some more studies on this; but if true it would support the belief that it is culture, not race or strictly speaking SES, that predicts for high academic achievement. [/quote]

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