Charter School Failures in Ohio

Urban public school teachers are about two times more likely than non-teachers to send their own children to private schools.


About 11 percent of all parents — nationwide, rural and urban — send their children to private schools.


The numbers are much higher in urban areas.


One study found that in Philadelphia a staggering 44 percent of public school teachers send their own kids to private schools. In Cincinnati and Chicago, 41 and 39 percent of public school teachers, respectively, pay for a private school education for their children.


In Rochester, New York, it’s 38 percent.


In Baltimore it’s 35 percent, San Francisco is 34 percent and New York-Northeastern New Jersey is 33 percent.


In Los Angeles nearly 25 percent of public school teachers send their kids to private school versus 16 percent of Angelenos who do so.


The study, conducted in 2004 by the Fordham Institute, said: “These findings … are apt to be embarrassing for teacher unions, considering those organizations’ political animus toward assisting families to select among schools. But these results do not surprise most practicing teachers to whom we speak. … The data have shown the same basic pattern since we first happened upon them two decades ago: Urban public school teachers are more apt to send their own children to private schools than is the general public."



http://www.humanevents.com/2013/10/17/where-do-public-school-teachers-send-their-own-kids/
 
The Dude said:
I'm in nawlins and mine went to top flight Catholic school and I'm 97 percent atheist 3 percent catholic.
Schools are soo bad here if you are a college grad you send the rug rats to private school.
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Schools in new Orleans really are that god awful. I would not even send an imbecile like Ishmael Pequod to New Orleans public schools.
 
Every teacher in our school district sends their kids to a private school in the next county over... Not kidding, every single one of them (well not the ones that don't have kids, but all of them that have kids).

Oddly enough most of them don't even live in this county, they could send their kids to the public school in the next county but still don't.
 
The Dude said:
My grandkids will go to private school if I have to pay for it.
Of course the boys will wrestle.
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See, I am really lucky that we have such a good charter school for my children to attend, plus I live in a superb suburban scool district. Our elementary school was in the top sixty of over six thousand Ohio elementary schools.

My son almost went to St. Charles, which is a very good local catholic school. But in the end he decided to stay where he was at.

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Damocles said:
Every teacher in our school district sends their kids to a private school in the next county over... Not kidding, every single one of them (well not the ones that don't have kids, but all of them that have kids).

Oddly enough most of them don't even live in this county, they could send their kids to the public school in the next county but still don't.
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A lot of places in our country have terrible public schools. Like I said, I am very lucky.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
UnHuh...Move to Arkansas and tell me if you'd send your kids to public school there.
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Exactly. When we were looking at moving to South Carolina we took a good hard look at the schools there. Talk about dumbfuckistan!

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Threedee said:
Nope, Southern States are the worst. They are un-American, ignorant, inbred, insufferable, and generally speaking the biggest obstacle American progress faces on a constant and historical basis. Ohio and New Jersey are simply the worst of real America.
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I have to quote this for truth. One of the best posts here all week!
 
1966stang said:
See, I am really lucky that we have such a good charter school for my children to attend, plus I live in a superb suburban scool district. Our elementary school was in the top sixty of over six thousand Ohio elementary schools.

My son almost went to St. Charles, which is a very good local catholic school. But in the end he decided to stay where he was at.

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A lot of places in our country have terrible public schools. Like I said, I am very lucky.
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What neighborhood are you in? My folks went to Upper Arlington High.
 
1966stang said:
See, I am really lucky that we have such a good charter school for my children to attend, plus I live in a superb suburban scool district. Our elementary school was in the top sixty of over six thousand Ohio elementary schools.

My son almost went to St. Charles, which is a very good local catholic school. But in the end he decided to stay where he was at.

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A lot of places in our country have terrible public schools. Like I said, I am very lucky.
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I lived in suburbs outside New Orleans, the public high school had a kid thrown out of a second floor window the year before I went. I had several fights freshman year till kids were aware I boxed.
 
A 2007 Heritage Foundation study found that 37 percent of representatives and 45 percent of senators with school-age children sent their own kids to private school.


Of the members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus with school-age children, 38 percent sent them to private school.


Of the members of the Congressional Black Caucus with school-age children, 52 percent sent them to private school.


When he got elected president, Obama and his wife made a big display of looking into D.C. public schools for his two daughters to attend. But the Obamas chose Sidwell Friends, the elite private school whose alums include Chelsea Clinton. Obama’s own mother sent the then-10-year-old to live with her parents — so he could attend Punahou Academy, the most exclusive prep school on the island. In fact, from Punahou to Occidental (a private college in Los Angeles) to Columbia (where he completed college) to Harvard Law, Obama is a product of private education.



So how does this square with Obama’s opposition to the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program that offered a voucher for the children of participating parents?



http://www.humanevents.com/2013/10/17/where-do-public-school-teachers-send-their-own-kids/
 
cawacko said:
What neighborhood are you in? My folks went to Upper Arlington High.
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I live in Southern Point, which is just across the Pickaway county line. My children would normally go to Teays Valley Schools. I work for Capital University and my wife works for Columbus State, so we pretty much get near free college tuition for our children.

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The Dude said:
I lived in suburbs outside New Orleans, the public high school had a kid thrown out of a second floor window the year before I went. I had several fights freshman year till kids were aware I boxed.
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Cool! My respect for you just went way up.
 
I've been know to say oh god when really really happy! Wink wink
And Jesus Christ when really really made at bad football calls.
 
Threedee said:
Suburban schools are superior everywhere. The worst public schools are the urban and rural ones.
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Thank you, I have found this to be correct in my reading.

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1966stang said:
In a way, this makes sense. Responsible people want to be around other responsible people, and the want their children to succeed in this life.
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I don't think responsible is the word I would use, but I lack one to replace it at the moment.
 
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