All you need is a student who wants to learn and a teacher who wants to teach. If you have those two things everything else is irrelevant.
Its not just the ghettos that have sub-par schools with teachers who don't want to teach. Throughout my 4 years in high school I attended 3 different schools. The one thing that they all had in common was the majority of teacher just don't give a rats ass anymore. Note: all of these schools have been in upscale middleclass neighborhoods. Sure I had the occasional teacher who truly like to teach but most of them were happy just slapping A's and B's onto students papers and pushing them along to the next grade. Spend the money on GOOD teachers and, like lee said, everything else is irrelevant.
If you end up deciding to build your own, another good place to check out is googlegear. I order just about everything from there. They have acceptable prices and are very professional.
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All you need is a student who wants to learn and a teacher who wants to teach. If you have those two things everything else is irrelevant. Its not just the ghettos that have sub-par schools with teachers who don't want to teach. Throughout my 4 years in high school I attended 3 different schools. The one thing that they all had in common was the majority of teacher just don't give a rats ass anymore. Note: all of these schools have been in upscale middleclass neighborhoods. Sure I had the occasional teacher who truly like to teach but most of them were happy just slapping A's and B's onto students papers and pushing them along to the next grade. Spend the money on GOOD teachers and, like lee said, everything else is irrelevant.
If you end up deciding to build your own, another good place to check out is googlegear. I order just about everything from there. They have acceptable prices and are very professional.