[ale] Way OT: ATL Neighboorhoods and Schools

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

Hi George,

Choose a quality private school if you can afford it.  (Think $ 600 / month+.)  Overall, historically, GA schools rank among the lowest in the nation.  I think they may be improving now though.  If you are religious, choose a private school that caters to your religious tastes.  That way the school won't unteach most of your important philosophical core values.  Public schools teach / indoctrinate whatever social / cultural values THE GOVERNMENT has, not necessarily what you have.  Also, with a private school, your kids can go where ever you want them to regardless of what district you're in.  It is my opinion that conventional school settings destroy a child's creativity by forcing them to become virtual cookie cutter copies of the other students, memorizing tons of useless information, and virtually being banned from any outside the box thinking.  That applies to private schools too.  Our educational system was designed primarily to produce factory workers that don't think creatively, but just quietly do their repetitive monotonous jobs.  I do appreciate all those factory workers though.

Googling ga school rank will give you lots of food for thought.

Sincerely,

Ron


George Allen <glallen01 at gmail.com> wrote:

>So my wife and I have been looking at houses here in Atlanta for a
>while, and I thought I'd ask the list. If you want your kids to become
>educated people, smart enough to run linux and grok math, science,
>civics, etc. then what areas are best?
>
>Thanks,
>-George
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