something to consider

[Busboy]

I have always believed that a large part of the success of charter schools, magnet schools and private schools lies in the fact that the parents of the kids enrolled have had to exert at least a little bit of effort to get their kids in, and are by definition involved in the kids education. For the same reason the kids that are more likely to cause problems ( as a result of being raised by bad parents) are absent from the classrooms. Teachers therefore spend little time on discipline and more time on education. My daughter has exactly one disruptive kid in her class and it has a big effect on classroom learning- make that 4 or 5 kids and very little would be accomplished.

I don't mean to dispute any of Newton's conclusions/observations- I'm just adding one that needs to be considered.