[Amelia]

Smart, polite, funny, curious, and socially poised government schooled children do NOT come to my office.

I would ask if you were running some sort of welfare clinic, but even among the less affluent public school students I teach, I've found some who were smart, polite, funny, curious, and socially poised.

That sort of student is more prevalent in the more affluent group of public school students.

[wintertime]

Amelia,

In 1998, I did work in an inner-city welfare clinic in Philadelphia. None of the children were homeschooled. It likely would have been impossible for their parents. These children need to be institutionalized for their education. It is too bad that tax credit funded private vouchers are not available to them.

My current clinic does not accept state welfare, but I have a wide mix of patients. Some park cars for Avis and Hertz. Some change sheets for the Marriot. Others are university professors, and I have a wide range of patients that work in the downtown of my current city.