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[quote=Anonymous]Agree.  It is nearly 100 percent about the student, their family, and parental support at home.

Countries that spend way way less on education produce better students.

My husband went to a private school in a very poor country.  It was not an expensive school, but it was filled with middle class families that really cared and valued education.  They had extremely basic materials; pencils, paper, text books, chalk boards, desk.  There was no school gymnasium/auditorium.  No sports fields, no after school clubs, no science Olympiad, no field trips, no PTA organizing cookie exchanges, staff lunches, assemblies, etc.  They didn’t have spirit week, homecoming, prom and all the stuff US schools do and spend money on.  School would be cancelled for weeks at a time due to ongoing political conflicts.  Yet he and many of his classmates managed to become highly successful with lucrative careers and now live in the US. It isn’t money that makes a good school, it the values and discipline of the students and their families. [/quote]

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