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Public schools with policies that are focused on children rather than testing. in fact, in the last year, there was a consensus to stop all of the testing, to reinvest in public schools and not deprive them of the funding they need. 35 states spend less money on public schools even though we're asking them to do more and more and more than they did in 2008. what parents throughout the country are saying, in fact, in the last election they said this, when the choice to have more charter and privatization was put on the ballot in massachusetts and georgia, parents said, no, let's make sure we ha...

>> they said they do. it was hard for an outsider to measure. we saw they were engaged on computers. they weren't necessarily playing computer games. many were maybe doing intense research. many were sit pg around reading by themselves. >> it is a private school. they have to pay 8,000 dollars. >> there are parents who are non-traditional for whom public school doesn't work. they don't like the model it doesn't work for their kids. they seek this out for kids to be in charge of themselves. they trust their kids will learn. >> most go to college? >> 85 percent go on to college. >> i would be ne...

Computers. they weren't necessarily playino computer games. they might have been doing really intense academic research and many of them were sitting around reading by themselves.m >> stossel: and they must learnc something 'cause the parents choose this. it's a private school. they have to pay $8,000.e >> they do.c and there are parents who are obviously nontraditional for whom public school doesn't work. they don't like there model. it doesn't work for their kid. so they seek this school out as a way for their kids to really be in charges of themselves andt they trust -- the trust is the mos...