> Let’s not be dolts... private schools get to choose their pupils, not everyone gets in. <
Bingo. I taught for a number of years at a blue-ribbon private school. Great kids and great administrators...but lousy pay. Anyway, if a student disrupted a class, he got one warning. If it happened again, he was gone. Not for the day, but forever.
Later on I taught in an urban public high school. I’d match my honors class kids there against any kid from any private school.
But the mainstream class kids...those kids are the real victims here. Even one disruptive student in those classes could stop any learning (oh, the stories I could tell you). And as I noted in my post #9, most of the administrators were too cowardly to take action to correct the problem.
well put!