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Greatness And Public School

Depending on the size of your community the number of kids who might be in public school can vary from hundreds to thousands. There has been a lot of discussion about whether the government should even be involved in funding public schools. That is a political discussion. But the real question is whether your child will achieve his or her maximum potential in a public setting with thousands of other kids.’

Sadly, when we look back over history, many of our greatest thinkers and individuals who achieved greatness in their lives were not the product of public school. Obviously the men who founded our country were not products of government run education because at that time, such things did not exist. But many eccentric but exceptional talents such as Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison were not the least bit suited to public school. In fact, Edison was thrown out of public school because the administration determined he was “feeble minded”.