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Jun 02, 2004 -- Public boarding school in D.C. a great success
A massive amount of your tax dollars goes toward education whether you have kids in school or not. That would be fine if schools were performing as they should. But we run our schools like monopolies, and the government decides who goes to what school. Its arbitrary, thoughtless and wrong. What we need is choice. When you have choice, you create opportunity. One school in Washington D.C., is getting it right. Seed School is a public boarding school that brings in kids who read at a fourth grade level in the seventh grade. The kids are chosen by a lottery and they stay at the school during the week and go home on the weekends. The school is in an area of the country where about five percent of school children go to college. But of the Seed School kids, 100 percent are going to college. Thats amazing. The innovative schooling has given them a chance, and its working.
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