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In reply to the discussion: Another side of Andy Borowitz [View all]PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,930 posts)good secular private schools.
I'm thinking of the many excellent secular private schools out there. I wound up sending my sons to one of them. The original impetus was that my older son was being bullied in the otherwise very good local public schools. He had some specific issues which made things difficult for him. He had Asperger's which wasn't diagnosed until the second semester of his senior year of high school, although it had been present from the day he was born. He also had alopecia areata, an auto-immune disorder that causes hair loss. He had the most extreme version, universalis, which meant he had no eybrows, eyelashes, any body hair at all. So he looked different.
In the private school his different appearance didn't matter, and the fact that he was very smart was an asset.
He is currently in a PhD program in astronomy on the east coast. He had a lot of stumbles along the way, and seems to have a good life at this point.
I will agree that done right, charter schools have a place, but they should not be for-profit.