okay i'm here how do you feel about the public schools
well
our public schools are are really poor i feel um
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i'm not sure where Georgia ranks in the nation but uh we're toward the bottom
yeah
and uh there's a lot of things that i see
that are so obviously wrong
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that you would think it'd be easy to correct but the system doesn't allow for the corrections
right
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yeah how about you
well that's interesting i have a sister who used to live in Kennesaw Georgia
oh yes
and uh she has a young boy actually has two boys now but only had one when she was there
and she complained quite a bit about this school system there
yes
and
and Cobb County is better than the county i'm in she was in Cobb County
right
right i'm i can't really say much about the schools up here i really don't come from here
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i'm only up here temporarily on an internship but um i live in Orlando Florida usually
okay
and the schools down there from what i know are not bad they're pretty good
well that's great
but i know that in some i know in a lot of rural areas they're not that good
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for example i have a brother in North Carolina and he says the schools there are are incredibly bad um just terrible
well i feel that we're way behind uh i have a son that is in the fourth grade and uh they have just now taken up division
hm
wow
uh yeah and and you know i my husband and i go to the store and we buy these math books and and fractions and multiplication division things and
that is slow
i feel like uh
there are several areas that we're just really really slow in and uh
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i don't blame the teachers as much as i blame the system it is
what do you think's wrong to cause that
well well for one thing there's not enough money in the school system and the money they do have they're not they do not use it wisely uh she my son's teacher has twenty seven students
yeah
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and that's certainly is a lot of students for one person
yeah
to deal with on an every day basis
perhaps
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but more than that i don't think that they have the authority to command the attention of the children
yeah
and when you have two kids in that class that constantly keep the ca class in an uproar and you're not at liberty
yeah
to do something about it other than give them on campus isolation or send them to the principal's office and it
yeah that's that's one thing i worry about
it you know it can you it can really be bad uh also i think
we have a lot of uh
Hispanics
there you go uh-huh
and we have a lot of uh uh the county i am i'm in uh the minorities are mostly Hispanic
yeah probably quite a few black people up there and and
no we're from a county and uh we're from the county they marched in we're in Forsyth county yes and we and there's very very few blacks uh so uh so that's um
no
oh is that right
oh okay
i i hate to say it's not a problem uh because i hate to feel like they are a problem although they are
yeah but you know it it it's you don't want to seem racist or prejudice or whatever but then again yeah there is no denying that it that
but it is a problem
uh especially in the inner schools inner city
sure you know teachers you have to admit that teachers have to slow things down for people who don't understand especially if there's not a very well developed special education program at the school
well and you can't put all the children in special education uh and if the parents do not care enough to take an interest in whether the homework is done
that's right you can't do that
right
you know
see i grew up in Nebraska
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and the school that i went to there was fantastic it i i really consider myself very very lucky
um we had a school that had classes probably about the same size you're talking twenty seven thirty kids to class to a class
yeah
but your teacher had control
but
yeah we zipped right along you know i i was i was doing mathematics fractions and division and multiplication by the third grade easily um
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yeah i i believe i was too
um-hum but you're right you know with all this don't hurt the kids and don't abuse their rights you've also taken something away from the discipline i think
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um well it it really is a concern of mine because if we could afford it my son would be in private school we just cannot afford it
yeah
right i was gonna ask you if there that was an option
um if
