In article , Rumpty wrote:
The ones who need the better schools need to be removed from
the public schools and taught sound subject matter by those
who understand this, and not warehoused with their "peers".

That's an issue that needs to be addressed to the local school board who has
control over the students.

The local school board has much less control than most
seem to think. Its members are "extra time", which means
that they are full-time otherwise, and they have all their
meetings taken up with the current administration of the
schools. Matters such as parking, allocation of the budget,
and others like that are all they can manage.

In addition, few of the school administrators in the country
are at all sympathetic to teaching subject matter instead of
their theories of socializing, and not too many of the teachers
understand their subjects.

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