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LWolf

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7. It's really

Reply to meaculpa2011 (Reply #4)

Thu Aug 11, 2016, 05:52 PM

Aug 2016

hard to build relationships and community in schools that size.

It's also very expensive to provide more facilities, and staff them, to bring that size down. New York spends, if I'm remembering correctly, more $$ per student than any other state in the nation.

My state spends $9,000 and change; about half of what New York spends.

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Every school day morning Patti and Ron Reagan did this: [View all] cali Aug 2016 OP

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I've spent LWolf Aug 2016 #6

It sounds like you're in a good environment, and yes, of course, smaller is better. cali Aug 2016 #8

I heard Thom Hartmann describe Danish schools a few days ago. Ilsa Aug 2016 #3

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Right. My elementary school had... meaculpa2011 Aug 2016 #4

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I have no idea why the Reagans chose to send them to one of the most liberal schools you can imagine Jopin Klobe Aug 2016 #9

I suspect that it had more to do with it becoming fashionable for people cali Aug 2016 #11