facepalm of the day

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Danzig

She's probably better off out of there anyway. Just unreal that's how they chose to handle it. Glad for her shes beaten that disease. You'd think tho that private schools would have to meet the same standards...I thought the main reason people sought private was it was perceived as better?

Yes, that is why parents seek private schools, even though the facts don't actually bear that belief out:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...-book-says-no/

Adjusted for demographics, public schools do a better job, often because their teaching methods aren't outdated, like they often are in private schools (especially religious ones). Kids in private schools do well because they are rich, not because the school is private. As has been said before, the US does not have an education crisis; it has a poverty crisis.

Back in high school, at Model UN, I was seated next to a boy from the local Catholic School, who proceeded to jam his hand up my skirt half an hour into the session. I can't speak to his knowledge of the United Nations, but he certainly was well educated in sexually harassing teenage girls.

So yeah, depending on the poverty rates of the student body at the public school in Battle Creek, this young girl may well end up better off, and her parents may have a bit more money to put towards her college fund.