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.
Maybe the "good folks" are pulling their kids because the public schools can't do anything to get rid of the "bad folks" kids,private schools can give kids the boot for screwing up,public schools do nothing
