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> It is heartbreaking when all a child has is public school.

All I had was public school in a small town and I was a National Merit Scholar. I don’t understand this line of reasoning that you need more teaching from parents or for profit tutoring etc. I got a great education at my public school.

Now are some schools not great? Yes. But a blanket statement that all public schools aren’t enough seems incorrect, in my experience.




>National Merit Scholar

Given how rare this is, this is much more of a function of IQ than school quality. If you fill a school, regardless of quality, with smart kids, grades, ratings, other other benchmarks of quality will probably all go up.


I went to a school where National Merit Scholars were a dime a dozen: student performance there was almost independent of the teaching that they got.


“In a small town” basically covers it right there.


That's not particularly descriptive, because the high school in my small town of 25,000 was in the middle of the LA metro area. It is most often referred to as a small town by LA locals but it's high school class alone is easily the size of a "small town" in rural areas, where you might need a car just to get to your nearest neighbor.


“ in general.” Implies it’s not a blanket statement for all. Of course there is the exception.


If you have a learning disability and your only choice is public school, your pretty screwed.


"It worked for me, so it must be working for most others."




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