Quote Originally Posted by niky
ONE THING you guys have to know about public schools is that the system just doesn't work.

The major problem is that the cumulative effects of mismanagement in early grades, non-participation of parents in education, and dropping out and absenteeism due to poverty show up by the time the students are "elevated" to grade 6. Many students are merely "promoted" to the next grade, no matter how poor their ability, because the school is overloaded or the child is too old to stay in that grade level. It's very sad.

And some of our so-called "better" private-schools aren't any better in terms of academics...
Maybe this holds true for pubic (and private) school system for the last 5-10 years. In my time (this was like ages ago), this was not the case.