| A study done by the Thomas B. Fordham | | | | children get in these schools. Public-school |
| Institute found that nationwide, | | | | teachers love their children like all other |
| public-school teachers are almost twice as | | | | parents do. They want the best for their |
| likely as other parents to send their | | | | kids. So, is it any wonder that so many |
| children to a private school. The study also | | | | teachers send their children to private |
| found that more than one in five | | | | schools?These statistics should be a warning |
| public-school teachers send their kids to | | | | signal for parents, a red flag waving briskly |
| private schools.In the biggest cities across | | | | in the wind. If your children's teachers are |
| America, the statistics get even more | | | | sending their children to private schools, |
| startling. In Washington, D.C., Baltimore, | | | | should you be keeping your kids in public |
| and 16 other big cities, more than 1 out of 4 | | | | school? If the soldier-teachers in the |
| public-school teacher's kids attend private | | | | public-school trenches tell you that there is |
| schools. In some cities, almost half the | | | | something very wrong with these schools, you |
| public-school teachers do this. For example, | | | | should, for once, be listening to |
| in Philadelphia, 44 percent, and in | | | | them.Actions speak louder than words. The |
| Cincinnati, 41 percent of public-school | | | | fact that so many public-school teachers send |
| teachers sent their kids to private | | | | their kids to private schools should be all |
| schools.Yet, across America, only about 12.2 | | | | the proof you need that it might be wise for |
| percent of all parents who are not teachers | | | | you to look for education alternatives for |
| send their children to private schools.Now, | | | | your kids elsewhere.If you think you can't |
| why is this? Public school authorities keep | | | | afford an expensive private school, you're |
| telling us that they give our kids a good | | | | happily mistaken. Joel Turtel's book, "Public |
| education. Yet they send their kids to | | | | School's, Public Menace" tells parents all |
| private schools?Well, teachers know best in | | | | about quality, low-cost Internet private |
| this case. They actually work in the public | | | | schools. These private schools are a great |
| schools every day. They see the kind of | | | | new resource for giving your children an |
| 3rd-rate, often mind-numbing education | | | | excellent education at an affordable price. |