[NU Sports] coaches leaving

[Sanford_Stein at rush.edu]

Speaking as an Evanston public school parent, I believe that our
schools are among the best in the nation, public or private.

Nonetheless, a surprisingly high number of parents still choose to
send their children to private schools, despite the exorbitant taxes we
all pay to the school district.  Why?  One reason is that Evanston
has a lot of highly educated and affluent people with counterculture
leanings.  They are enamored of alternative programs like
Montessori and Waldorf, as well as home schooling.
And some people will always choose parochial schools, for
personal reasons.

Another reason, I am ashamed to admit, is elitism.  There are children
of all economic classes in the public schools, and some folks feel
that having poor kids in the classroom somehow diminishes the quality
of everybody's education.  Personally, I am thankful that my son
learned to get along with and respect people of all ethnic and income
groups--and this did not keep him from aceing the SATs.
I know nothing about Norman, Oklahoma, but the Evanston schools
should be a selling point in attracting coaches.

(This is probably no longer a "sports" thread so we should keep any
further comments on the subject off-list).

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Not to knock north Chicago, but having lived in Norman, and having had a
wife
teach just across the river, I can tell you that the Public School of
Norman,
OK, with the University of OK there, are as good as anything around
Evanston.

If the public schools in and around Evanston are so good, why are there so
many
private schools?

rsl



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I will contest one of Roy's points:

"I know from experience that OU pays better than NU, the weather's nicer
most of
the year, you don't have to send your kids to private school in Norman, and
he
can use all the red stuff left over from Miami. "

Any Northwestern staffer who feels that he has to send his kids to private
school is kidding himself - any Public school on the North Shore, including
ETHS
and New Trier, is better than its private counterparts - I'd match ETHS,
New
Trier or Glenview against North Shore Country Day or Roycemore, or the
parochials like Loyola Academy, and the public schools would win going
away.
And they would certainly outperform anything he might find in the public
schools
in Norman, Oklahoma.

Chuck Herron   Tech '85

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