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[RaisingAPrince]

I don't know much about this but I'm thinking that unless one lives in an exceptionally good school district you are taking a chance with a public school.

We live in a VERY good school district and with just the one year my son has been in Kindergarten I can see the difference from where I went to public school (granted a lot of things have changed in 24 years). We choose where we live based on the school district and their ratings. Ours is ranked ""Excellent WITH DISTINCTION" rating from the Ohio Department of Education" which is the equivalent of an A+.

I agree though that public schooling is a gamble but you better believe I am on top of making sure my kids get the best education they can. I make sure homework is done and my son is excelling in all academic areas. I recently volunteered in the classroom and other parents were talking about how they hadn't even opened the assigned books for their kids and how maybe they should have listened to the teacher when she told them to work on sight words at the beginning of the year. Success of the children depends just as much as the parenting at home as the teacher in school.