"Dennis O'Connor" wrote in message
...
Monday night I gave the keynote address at the induction of new members
into
the National Honors Society... These are the best and brightest, who had
to
make a significantly high GPA and at the same time do a significant number
of service hours in the community in order to qualify... They restore my
faith in the next generation... The other 95% in the public class rooms
are
just cannon fodder... Teaching in front of them under today's rules has
to
be real agony...

My grandson attends private school... Acting out is NOT an option in
those
classrooms, as he found out the first time he responded to being pushed...
The pusher was later ejected from the school after three warnings to the
parents - yup, three strikes and you are out, and no refund... I suspect
she is now in public school, relentlessly thinning out the ranks of
qualified teachers...
denny

Quite so, Denny.

My three daughters (not a sitcom) all attended private school (K-9, about
180 to 220 students in later years) and I remember numerous stories about
kids dropped on their FIRST major infraction.

When they had "Open House", not only parents showed up, but grandparents as
well. Some were single parents and few were really what you'd call "well
off"

BTW...all three daughters were reading old classics (Little Women,
Shakespeare...not abridges versions) but the time they were seven years old.

Not unusual at all when one remembers that the parents are spending THEIR
OWN money, rather than feeding at the public trough.

The School? A Montessori.