Looking to move? Consider the Triangle area of North Carolina. Seriously.

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55. I am thinking of the violence in our public schools, the lack of funding for many activities so that

parent booster clubs have to step in (sports, the arts), standardized testing determining curriculum, that in Germany my partner’s daughter (raised from 2 on there) went on school trips to Turkey and other countries, and was so well prepared for college.

I am not even talking about school shooting violence, but the every day sort. I taught an older adult college student who sent his high school age son back to a war torn country to get him away from the daily incidents in our city’s public school. I had to send my daughter out of state to a small town, so maybe it is regional or bigger town related, but a recurrent theme I heard from parents who immigrated here was that in the European countries they came from, public education at “home” was comparable to private here.

Your first paragraph, however, characterizing the German system and giving examples from your daughters’ experience with attitude, pedagogy, and bureaucracy convinces me I lack information!

I completely defer to your much closer look at essential differences and will stick to touting the Irish public school system over our own now.

Congratulation to your daughters not only surviving their educational experience, but thriving in the best way.