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What's the Point of Public School?

It seems like for every example of good learning I find, there are also a multitude of obstacles standing in the way.

Supporting my children through their public school education over the past several years has been anything but smooth-sailing. It seems like for every example of good learning I find, there are also a multitude of obstacles standing in the way.

Sometimes I wonder if all this difficulty is rooted in a basic difference of opinion, if the gap between our philosophies of education is just too vast to bridge. I'm curious what other parents and neighbors think, so I pose this question: What is the point of public school?

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