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Originally posted by Munchkin03
I don't know about that one. In fact, I call complete and utter bullshit.
Where my parents live, everyone knows that the private schools (with the exception of the Catholic School) are all fly-by-night places that are the last resort for kids who get kicked out of our (generally excellent) public school system. None of them are nearly as rigorous as the public schools, so most of the "graduates" end up going to places like Liberty and Bob Jones. In the past four years, however, the public high schools have sent their graduates to all of the Ivies, MIT, Stanford, Northwestern, Chicago, and all of the great state schools.
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This really has no bearing on Russ's point, but this sort of anecdotal evidence may not be the norm nationwide - I would assume that a higher percentage of bad schools are public, but I'm not sure if we can really ever discover this information for sure, due to difficulty in definition etc.
However, either way, calling bullshit with anecdotal evidence really doesn't help us get there.
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