Reply #82: I couldn't find anything about Scandinavian charter schools

[sulphurdunn]

on the link, but I did grow up in a Scandinavian community. Every summer the kids of relatives from the Old Country would come to visit. They all were bright and spoke better English than we spoke Norwegian or Swedish because they'd studied it since the 2nd grade. Otherwise, the were no better educated than we were, although they did tend to take their studies more seriously. Even so, Scandinavia is not America. It has a very different history and making comparisons between homogeneous social welfare states like Norway or Denmark with 5 million people each or Sweden with about 9 million to a heterogeneous, multiracial, imperial robber baron state with 320 million people like ours is an apple and oranges comparison.