Frank,
Your point is very well taken. Andy is entirely right. I apologize. I'm
glad you corrected my understanding. I had a little time on my hands
this morning and I listened to the NPR piece, which explained it very
well, as you said.
"Experience," like most things in life, cuts both ways. The experience
of shopping for a high school in today's Philadelphia was one we found
very stressful and confusing.
Your child gets to submit five applications for a variety of schools, if
he or she doesn't want to go to the fallback regional HS. The schools
differ prodigiously in their nature and organization. They are hard to
categorize. And that's if you want to stay in the system! Charter
schools introduce an additional spin of the dice.
Many of the other parents we talked to held graduate degrees. Everyone
reported the process was overwhelming. It is impossible to master all
the details of all the choices. It is as demanding as applying for
college in many ways. None of us was prepared for that experience. A
year later, we are still a little traumatized.
The only thing worse would have been ... no choice. We didn't run into
any parents who wished they had no choice. I'm sure there are some, though.
-- Tony West
Frank wrote:
If it really makes you feel better to write crap like this because I
corrected you, then have fun. I published no "preachments" about
anyone's child's life. I corrected a misstatement about who was
donating money to HSOF and made no judgements about anything. Period.
If I heeded "those of us with experience," which I guess is supposed
to mean you, I would now be thinking that the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation funded this school, which they didn't.
Frank
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