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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]10:15 More afterschool programs would open like they already are. The private market takes care of needs that people want to pay. You can't have a system where more people are taking out instead of putting in. Parents with one working spouse already can take a tax deduction for their other spouse during their working years.  If they want more funds in retirement, they should pay more into SS.

[b]FCPS ranks first in the nation for high school graduation rates in large school systems. Even with children coming into high school without knowing English and a schooling background only to a 3rd grade level. That's astounding. And yet, we can't pay our teachers reasonable amounts and have classes over 30 students. There has to be some balance and more vocational opportunities as well. It's simply too much for a teacher to be responsible for teaching a child 9 years of education over 4 years plus teach them English[/b].[/quote]

As a high school ESOL teacher, I thank you for this.  I agree that we have a great deal of success, even with all these challenging kids.  However, we also have a lot of kids who just end up dropping out of school and I am not sure that gets figured into graduation rates since an ESOL student never gets to 12th grade (they repeat 11th grade until they get out of ESOL).  There need to be more options for these kids.  [/quote]

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