Stupid in America

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For the record, I went to the 34th best high school in the U.S. according to U.S. News&World Report (I believe it was ranked 11th last year) and it was a NYC public school (with admission requirements).

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So while I agree most public school systems fail miserably, I did go to one that works QUITE well. It's about the administrators, teachers, and parents taking that extra step in seeing their children excel. And I would say keeping them small helps a lot, too.

Yes and right now we have a system with NO choice about where you go. So if you are stuck with shitty incompetent teachers or admins, you're stuck with them. They used the example that only 2 of 88,000 NewYork public school teachers were fired last year. They used the corporate example of G.E. that fires the bottom 10% of their employees. Just imagine the news had NewYork decided to fire 8 THOUSAND teachers at once, that would be news on every single tv station, webpage and global news.

Sure you think you went to a good shool, this special compared 'good' american schools with average Belgium ones, they wooped our asses.

One point this special doesnt address specifically is the lack of discipline in school, which would be an entire different political issue. Schools are so afraid of getting sued they lose control of the kids. The examples of good school they showed, the kids are in uniforms and very much paying attention.