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Originally Posted by Pedro2008
Okay, then why did Obama have his children in private school in Chicago when he wasn't "the leader of the free world"
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Because he could afford to.
Listen.. performance of schools definately improves when a family is more affluent. .that is a given..
But even in private schools the results per socio economic level were the same wether someone who was poor was in a private school vs. a public school... I pointed right to it in my links a few posts down.
So.. a middle income family sending their child to private school is not going to really change anything!!! Period..
or to go futher.. let's put it this way.
Why does the success of a child's education increase as the family becomes more affluent?
Simple.. if the family is "rich" than most likely the parents of that student has a high level of education and educational acheivement
If a family is poor.. most likely the parents have little if no academic achievement .. Take those in the Appalachian mountains.. their parents are uneducated and unable to participate, encourage or even supplement what they are learning in school and have no interest in it most likely. OR.. if you take the poor performing schools of where I grew up you will find they are usually in sections where they are more economically depressed but also the parents in the household speak little to no english.
Then there's all that in the middle...
A childs school success is almost directly correlated with what success or levels of education the parents achieved.
So a poor student put into an affluential private school will achive similar to that of a student in the public school system of the same home background and vice versa.
Obama's kids could have performed just as well in public education as they do in private edcuation.. but because he could easily afford a private one he elected for a private education.
And again.. read a few posts up where I say that they should be careful what they ask for..
Obama sent his kids to private school because he could.. period! BUT.. his tax dollars were still collected to fund publicly run schools..
Take away his tax dollars and you further deplete the public school system..
allow vouchers to go to private schools and defer money from public.. you will weaken public..
And your child will perform no better or no worse.. because what needs to happen needs to come from home and the parents first and foremost...
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