[speaker001:] okay I'm here how do you feel about the public schools
[speaker002:] well our public schools are are really poor I feel um
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] I'm not sure where Georgia ranks in the nation but uh we're toward the bottom
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and uh there's a lot of things that I see that are so obviously wrong
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] that you would think it'd be easy to correct but the system doesn't allow for the corrections
[speaker001:] right um-hum
[speaker002:] yeah how about you
[speaker001:] well that's interesting I have a sister who used to live in Kennesaw Georgia
[speaker002:] oh yes
[speaker001:] and uh she has a young boy actually has two boys now but only had one when she was there and she complained quite a bit about this school system there
[speaker002:] yes
[speaker001:] and
[speaker002:] and Cobb County is better than the county I'm in she was in Cobb County
[speaker001:] right right I'm I can't really say much about the schools up here I really don't come from here
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] I'm only up here temporarily on an internship but um I live in Orlando Florida usually
[speaker002:] okay
[speaker001:] and the schools down there from what I know are not bad they're pretty good
[speaker002:] well that's great
[speaker001:] but I know that in some I know in a lot of rural areas they're not that good
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] for example I have a brother in North Carolina and he says the schools there are are incredibly bad um just terrible
[speaker002:] well I feel that we're way behind uh I have a son that is in the fourth grade and uh they have just now taken up division
[speaker001:] hm wow
[speaker002:] uh yeah and and you know I my husband and I go to the store and we buy these math books and and fractions and multiplication division things and
[speaker001:] that is slow
[speaker002:] I feel like uh there are several areas that we're just really really slow in and uh
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] I don't blame the teachers as much as I blame the system it is
[speaker001:] what do you think's wrong to cause that
[speaker002:] well well for one thing there's not enough money in the school system and the money they do have they're not they do not use it wisely uh she my son's teacher has twenty seven students
[speaker001:] yeah um-hum
[speaker002:] and that's certainly is a lot of students for one person
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] to deal with on an every day basis
[speaker001:] perhaps
[speaker002:] uh but more than that I don't think that they have the authority to command the attention of the children
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and when you have two kids in that class that constantly keep the ca class in an uproar and you're not at liberty
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] to do something about it other than give them on campus isolation or send them to the principal's office and it
[speaker001:] yeah that's that's one thing I worry about
[speaker002:] it you know it can you it can really be bad uh also I think we have a lot of uh Hispanics
[speaker001:] there you go uh-huh
[speaker002:] and we have a lot of uh uh the county I am I'm in uh the minorities are mostly Hispanic
[speaker001:] yeah probably quite a few black people up there and and
[speaker002:] no we're from a county and uh we're from the county they marched in we're in Forsyth county yes and we and there's very very few blacks uh so uh so that's um
[speaker001:] no oh is that right oh okay
[speaker002:] I I hate to say it's not a problem uh because I hate to feel like they are a problem although they are
[speaker001:] yeah but you know it it it's you don't want to seem racist or prejudice or whatever but then again yeah there is no denying that it that
[speaker002:] but it is a problem uh especially in the inner schools inner city
[speaker001:] sure you know teachers you have to admit that teachers have to slow things down for people who don't understand especially if there's not a very well developed special education program at the school
[speaker002:] well and you can't put all the children in special education uh and if the parents do not care enough to take an interest in whether the homework is done
[speaker001:] that's right you can't do that right
[speaker002:] you know
[speaker001:] see I grew up in Nebraska
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and the school that I went to there was fantastic it I I really consider myself very very lucky um we had a school that had classes probably about the same size you're talking twenty seven thirty kids to class to a class
[speaker002:] yeah but your teacher had control
[speaker001:] but yeah we zipped right along you know I I was I was doing mathematics fractions and division and multiplication by the third grade easily um
[speaker002:] um-hum yeah I I believe I was too
[speaker001:] um-hum but you're right you know with all this don't hurt the kids and don't abuse their rights you've also taken something away from the discipline I think
[speaker002:] uh-huh um well it it really is a concern of mine because if we could afford it my son would be in private school we just cannot afford it
[speaker001:] yeah right I was gonna ask you if there that was an option
[speaker002:] um if