spendi, without so much as a smile saidQuote:At least I don't have the obviously useless habit of simply making assertions.
Man, you are in a dream world since that is ALL you do.
No I dont accept it as a fair point because you are revealing how little you know about the way the schools are set up in US. They are local with local tax structures, They follow state guidelines but often loosely (hence the games with ID and school board fraud etc). Most of the better secondary schools are actually in highly taxed suburbs wherein faculties are "scouted" and offered slary bumpups based upon the teachers perceived qulity. In our area we have a cschool district called "Castle Rock" wherein many teachers earn easily over 100K. They are hired as teachers and the school district prides itself on its scholastic achievement . The people pay out the nose, the area is populated by people who buy "tract mansions" and when their larvae are graduated, they move out, thus opening the spot for another scholar. "Magnet schools" are also popular in the Philly suburbs, In these schools, each campus is a specialty provider. Some school;s are math and science, others are arts and others are more widely cultural. The kids must show aptitude and be able to ACE the PASatts tests (these are like our SATs where the schools take the 95 and highre percentile students). Where the Magnet school fail, they dont recogn ize that many of the lower scoring kids are actually high aptiude kids but with learning disabilities like ADD.
Your oversimplifiction is based on not knowing nor understanding about our schools systems and how we work it . Now, every state is different . In MAine, they have mostly rural schools because outside of southern MAine, its mostly woods. So there are lots of private academies with magnet school specialties like science or art. In the main, most urban schools nationwide are a mess, loaded with incomptetence and corruption.
