| I realize the private school/parochial school/day academy/well funded suburban school your children attend produces high test scores and even higher college acceptance rates. The urban public school my children attend cannot compare. Fifty percent of its students are from poverty level families. Sixty percent of its students are minorities. And its drop out rate is too high.
But its teaching staff is just as dedicated and there are sufficient numbers of honors and AP classes.
More importantly, my children have the ready compassion and ease with those of other backgrounds that life in an urban public school can teach. And that is more important to me than all the bragging rights your school provides. |