[KC_for_Freedom]

Well, in my post I indicated that poor performing schools should suffer consequences. But parental support for education is necessary as well. I submit that those who want to support education for their kids should receive support from the school. Those who have given their lives over to drugs or kids who have joined gangs should get the best education they can in the criminal justice system. I agree that bringing negative elements into public schools hurts the good students more than it helps the failing students. That is why I belive private schools succeed so well, they use their selective powers to help control the atmosphere in the school.

[valkyrieanne]

They control the atmosphere in the school by controlling who gets in and stays in. When you have enormous #s of dysfunctional students, and a school system that *can't* select for only the good students, what do you do then?