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Originally Posted by tadd

Flint:
College is not public education. There are public colleges, but they are not required to take and educate everyone like the public school system. A state university can actually end up being far more selective than a private college if it's reputation grows.

No one is guaranteed a college education. We do require by law attendance at public school.

I don't know if it better for society to try to teach those that do not want to learn by keeping them corralled at a public school till they are adults and can be locked into a prison, or let them loose because they have been expelled and putting the responsible parent in jail for any miscreation.

Would be interesting to see how many parents fill out paperwork to emaciate their kids if they were responsible.

I think you need to discipline the troublemakers (and there will be a lot fewer). those that still cause problems should be moved to an alternative school (until they prove they are able to return). Charter schools were not needed where I grew up...because the standards were quite high (enough for the brightest students) and other folks just passed with lower marks. Few children disrupted class because the punishment was corporal. Not learning was not tolerated and if you did not meet the minimum, you got summer school, repeated the grade entirely or both.