Reply #5: The question is not whether the school is private or public.

[JDPriestly]

The question is whether the students are selected for the class based on ability and willingness to learn and pay attention.

My children went to public schools -- Magnet schools -- and we had the same kind of experience that you had in the private schools.

Public schools do a great job for students who are willing to accept a challenge.

But it is impossible to teach kids who are absent a lot or too tired to learn.

The problems in public schools are in the homes of the children, not in the schools.

I have had friends who taught in public schools and friends who taught in private schools, and those who taught in public schools were in general more professional, more dedicated and better prepared to teach. I could not have dreamed of better teachers than my children's public school teachers.