🚀 go-pugleaf

>Public schools are, by and large, a failure.  Until parents have the
>choices offered by voucher systems, "parental involvement" is a sham.

and then,

>I wish I could recall the reference in Scientific American (within the
>last three years) but in the article parental involvement is vital and it
>has nothing to do with voucher systems.  It has all to do with getting
>students ready for school.  Having taught in both public and private
>institutions and attended both as a student there are many reasons why
>public schools are having so many problems at this stage in our history.

>Lowell



I quite agree with Lowell...

I would disagree with Susan O'donovan that the choices offered by the
voucher system to parents will involve them to the degree they need to
participate.  I believe that if more parents were more involved in the
education of their children at home (and in supporting them at school),
more schools would be successful, and then the voucher system would be "a
sham".

And is the physhare list really the proper forum to continue this
discussion on the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of public schools?


        Rick Degelsmith