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