[cloudmountain]

YES. They don't like to, because the district has to pay for it.
It's called a non-public school because it's not the same as a private school. We're at the other end. It's NOT a choice, except for some parents who are so fed up with the ineptitude of the public schools AND who somehow manage to find out that we exist AND jump through the district hurdles to get their child here.
You can't handle 'em? Send 'em to me. I can.
Oh, and we don't have a union either.

You're the real heroine here.

I haven't been in our teacher's union for 35 years. Got fed up with them a long time ago.

Too bad the parents associations don't get on those inept teachers. It IS the ineptitude of the individual instructors who turn off the kids.

[SCalGal]

Too bad the parents associations don't get on those inept teachers. It IS the ineptitude of the individual instructors who turn off the kids.

Parents have FAR more power than they realize. It takes some time to fight with the school and district, but it CAN be done.

Non-public schools are where the "expelled" students go - they don't just disappear into a vacume; the law requires that they go somewhere.

And I'll tell you - it's a LOT of fun to teach history to a kid who's every answer is to shout "NO" at the top of his lungs. No is a perfectly good answer - now, tell me why.

We need more people in this country who can say "NO".

[SCalGal]

I haven't been in our teacher's union for 35 years. Got fed up with them a long time ago.

Join it. Work your way up. Do a conservative takeover.... It's the only way we'll ever take our country back.