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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sell my house and go private. You have $$. Seems like not a real problem.  [/quote]

+ 1000   Sell the big house and spend the money on your kids.

But, I do have sympathy for the fact that many parents reasonably thought good public schools meant, well, that they were actually good schools, and not that they were simply buying into a pyramid where parents can afford tutors / mathnesium / to spend an hour or more a day on learning to read at home.[/quote]

This is the crux of the issue.

We are in a "great" public school system. We have a foreign language tutor, my kids go to mathnasium 2xs a week, and each summer do writing camps to make sure they grow into good writers. Because we have means our kids have access to much much more than what the school can offer. The school is who benefits from what we do and provide at home. Our kids high test scores, AP tests passed, and good college prospects are [u]due in NO PART whatsoever to the school system[/u]. The credit is to be given to our cash and the time we have to work with our children. I figure as long as we are spending less than 10K per kid on these things per year, we are better off than private. Additionally just because your kids goes to private does not mean they will get the education you think you are paying for.

You are really in for a disappointment if you think you can send your kids off to school and they will somehow learn.  Classes are large, classrooms are inclusive of kids who should be in special needs classes, full of disruptive ADHD kids (aka, my parents don't pay enough quality attention to me, therefore I act like an animal and they give me amphetamines to solve it) and teachers are spending most of their time on behavior issues.

So to answer your question OP, get the tutors and outside help. You will not change a government system that continues to reward bad performance due to an inalienability to terminate for performance.[/quote]

You can't seriously think the cause of ADHD is lack of qualify attention??? Do you have any idea how much time ADHD parents spend working with their children? Do you realize meds can be required due to actual differences in brain functioning? Go private or move if you can't deal with special needs kids in your school. They can't control their problematic behaviors. What's your excuse?
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