[Mpls] Doug Grow's Mythology

[Allen]

I wish this were the case.  BUt even this is based upon the assumption 
that any of these children that move to a better school have parents 
that are involved enough in their lives to make that happen.  And 
unfortunately in some of the neighborhoods where this occurs, there are 
too many parents who do not do this.  We need to keep this in mind and 
make sure that no matter how much more public or private the education 
system becomes that there is a need for programs to help children who do 
not have parents who are capable of helping or simply do not care.  That 
doesn't necessarily mean that the government has to provide this 
service, but it's needed.  There are a few bad parents in  this world. 
So it goes.

Allen Graetz
Lowry Hill

Dorothy Titus wrote:

>I wonder if the achievement gap and the disproportionate number of
>inexperienced teachers has to do with the voucher system.  I lived in the
>Washington, DC, area for 35 years, and we did not have voucher systems in
>DC, VA or MD.  A voucher system permits parents to take their children to
>schools where they believe they will be better accommodated.  This means
>that the brightest children move to the highest achieving schools.  The
>money goes with them, which means that higher achieving schools can afford
>to pay their teachers more, so the teachers also go to those schools.
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