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O'Connell blamed the increase on state budget cuts, which have resulted in larger class sizes, fewer art and music classes, cuts to sports, fewer counselors and less access to career/technical courses - all programs that can help keep struggling or at-risk students in school.

Pfft... the problem is a lack of decent parenting, children out of wed-lock and overall massive ignorance.

When one is both lazy and stuck on stupid don't expect different results.

NO amount of tax dollars will change that.

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the problem is a lack of decent parenting, children out of wed-lock and overall massive ignorance.
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So private or government?

Which school ( private or government) is in a better legal position to dish out heaping doses of moral instruction ( to both kids and their parents) needed to reverse the trends in parenting, illegitimacy, and ignorance?