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The first about four months were absolutely fine as far as training. i passed all 11 of the required performance tests. that included firearms, fitness, defensive tactics, legal, academic, you nade it. first time, no issues whatsoever. then i get to the tactical training portion, and suddenly, i'm realizing that i'm being very singled out by my tactics instructor, paul haren. he would pull me aside very frequently during exercises and give me very vague feedback. he would say things like, you're on the bubble. you are behind the curve. and he wouldn't give me any constructive feedback or anyth...

Launched. "washington post" is reporting the obama administration waited until late october to put the performance tests in place, that was after the web site's rollout, after users were seeing error messages. the facts as you have gathered while reporting this story, elise, does it sound like there was a lot of warning? >> there wasn't a lot of warning, and frankly the obama administration struggled in the weeks leading up to the rollout to find an accurate testing system that would enable them to eventually uncover the problems. and there was a report out from a private consulting firm in ...

>> greg: i home school my son sven. he is 18 years old. i adopted him last week off craigslist. it's amazing. classroom without competition is day care center for dependents. this is not about students. many is about teachers. nif teacher scared of school choice is incompetent teacher. competition is the only factor leave to im -- lead to improvement on all walks of life. everywhere you go, only way to improve life is through competition. left is pro-choice before the kids are born. >> bob: the idea of you home schooling somebody is the next step in the education process the bellevue psychiatr...

>> greg: i home school my son sven. he is 18 years old. i adopted him last week off craigslist. it's amazing. classroom without competition is day care center for dependents. this is not about students. many is about teachers. nif teacher scared of school choice is incompetent teacher. competition is the only factor leave to im -- lead to improvement on all walks of life. everywhere you go, only way to improve life is through competition. left is pro-choice before the kids are born. >> bob: the idea of you home schooling somebody is the next step in the education process the bellevue psychiatr...

Perhaps they can take a page or two from catholic schools is one argument on this because they have consistently outscored their public counterparts on performance tests. there may be quite a few reasons for that. more than 2 million american children were enrolled in catholic schools between 2009 and 2010. those numbers have been increasing. peter doocy is from washington. what's the reason that they seem to do better than the public schools? >> march that is correct the the experts we talk to say it comes down to choice. parents choose to send their kids to a particular school which shows to...