private school "revolution" is a regular talking point for some.. and also, there are ages-old responses and responses-to-responses to every single item here. T

private school "revolution" is a regular talking point for some.. and also, there are ages-old responses and responses-to-responses to every single item here. The shock to Americans is not that some children get beaten at home for making a simple math mistake, the shock to Americans is that every child cannot do 9th grade math, no matter how many times you try to teach it. Read the comment here about a Taiwan student who was average at home, becoming a "genius" immediately in the USA; similar storoes from some Eastern Europeans.. they can't believe that some strong students in public school do not have at least a semester of Calculus before college.. "I did that in 9th grade" they say.. it was written here.. there is no one-size-fits-all and somehow, Americans are shocked at this now, after thirty years of well-meaning propaganda from educational types.