Not to poke at you guys who send your kids to private school, but my wife (who teaches at a public middle school) & I have a different position:
If all of the �good kids� with �good parents� get pulled from public schools and sent to private schools, then why are we surprised when we see what happens with what is left. Why are the �good folks� always so willingly to quietly go away instead of getting involved in making something better?
Maybe what Daniel is experiencing is a result of a dozen or so good folks pulling their good kids out of the school. What kind of positive impact could those good folks and good kids have on the class as a whole?
My wife�s school started an �Academy� a couple of years ago. Essentially, it is like a magnet school within the school. Thanks to �No Child Left Behind�( aka �No Child Gets Ahead�), the school was previously unable to set aside advance track students. The academy has allowed them to do that. Since its inception, the # of kids transferring out to private schools & magnet schools has dropped from nearly 40% to around 15%. As the school retains more of those kids, the overall school improves.
I agree, we have some very active parents that volunteer time and resources to help our public school. We also have the fast track classes that our kids work at a very fast pace.
