mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
> CL <flothru@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
>>>Sigi Rindler <srindler@da2.so-net.ne.jp> wrote:
>>>
>>>>>>I may do just that.  But, our daughter was accepted at a private school
>>>>>>so my first order of business tomorrow is to go to the bank and furikomi
>>>>>>a year's worth of tuition.  It empties the bank account fast.
>>>>>
>>>>>how can you be sure a private school is any better than a state school i
>>>>>wonder?
>>>
>>>>And now let me ask you this one: Why are private schools better than public 
>>>>schools in the USA and in the UK?
>>>
>>>Are they?
> 
>>In some cases, yes. 
> 
> Which implies "in some cases, no".

Yes.  And the suggestive way a stripper dances also implies you're going 
to get laid tonight.

>>We chose the school based upon the fact that it is 
>>strictly secular (no attention paid to any of the Middle Eastern 
>>mythologies and no overt displays of religious regalia accepted), 
> 
> Sounds like a public school.

Are you writing in English (the Holy language of God, the Bible, and the 
Texas State Legislature) or British?

I am guessing you do not mean the British meaning ... in which case, if 
you read the local news from "home" you'll find a lot more school boards 
are being threatened into allowing children to pray in class, carry 
Bibles in school, wear large crosses (and yarmulkes and tsvilim) and 
t-shirts printed with fundamentalist crap on them.  One of my nieces was 
complaining that some fundy parents griped until the school board 
allowed lunchtime prayer meetings and made them set aside a separate 
"prayer" room -- and this was in a blue state, not clay eating country.

>>emphasizes excellence in math and sciences, holds classes in three 
>>languages (Japanese, English, French) from the first year, and is part 
>>of an international system of about 400 international schools which all 
>>teach the same curriculum.  That gives us the freedom to move to another 
>>country without seriously messing up where our children are in their 
>>educational cycle.  Plus the graduation diploma produced is accepted in 
>>most of North America and Western Europe.
> 
>>And, we've met a number of graduates of the system and they tend not to 
>>be the assholes that the graduates of the American School seem to be.
> 
> Thank God you didn't turn out like that, hunh?

Nope, I didn't.  I had to wait until I completed ROTC to become a fully 
certified asshole.  And then it turned out that the people who had 
become total assholes in high school or in the Academy were way ahead 
and were too difficult to compete against in the race for promotion to 
the upper ranks.

CL