[speaker001:] okay okay uh so what do you think about the school system
[speaker002:] well I think they're they're having a lot of trouble right now I know my son goes to a private school but uh I think they're big city public schools by definition are having a a tough time right now just from uh probably from budget cuts and and everything else going on
[speaker001:] uh why why did you choose a private school
[speaker002:] well I had one that was needed to be able to be moved along at a at a pace a little faster than he was gonna be able to moved be moved in public school so he's he has been going to private since kindergarten so
[speaker001:] public school oh has he and how does he like it
[speaker002:] oh he's loved it he's a senior in high school this year so he's yeah he's done it the whole twelve and a so many years and it's been uh it's been really good for him
[speaker001:] so he's been there all time how big of a school is it
[speaker002:] uh overall on campus about twelve hundred but in the upper school upper four grades uh about four hundred and something so it's maybe a hundred per grade
[speaker001:] a hundred per grade that's a good size
[speaker002:] yeah it really is
[speaker001:] kind of gives them the you know like get a little leery of the real small ones that they don't get much interaction with kids but uh
[speaker002:] yeah that was we were kind of looking for one that would be a mixture and
[speaker001:] so they don't that's good
[speaker002:] he's done he's done really well and just he was just ahead at an early age and I didn't feel like uh in what was available particularly in the first three grades
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and even in the fourth grade when they started what they called reach was still a pull out one day program
[speaker001:] huh
[speaker002:] and I just didn't think that was gonna get it I thought he needed to be exposed to a situation where he could push ahead uh everyday
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] but yet still be with his peers age wise
[speaker001:] still enjoy the right um one thing I think I've noticed is uh my my oldest is in kindergarten so I'm in a little different ballgame I'm just starting I
[speaker002:] you're just getting started
[speaker001:] but uh seems to me that uh kids these days uh can really get away with murder and the teachers don't have as much aren't respected as much and uh they have to be some careful of the things they do and say
[speaker002:] yeah I know that's that's a big problem
[speaker001:] and uh makes me a little nervous that uh students don't seem to show that respect and
[speaker002:] we wouldn't have thought of crossing a teacher when we were in school wouldn't have thought of it and you know and they'll stand there now with them toe to toe and
[speaker001:] no heavens no no you wouldn't and uh the things they can say and do to a teacher and they do from what I understand uh I think that's wrong I think we need to get back to the show some respect and course I guess the teacher used to warrant that but
[speaker002:] yeah but a lot of times it's not being taught in the home anymore like it used to be basic respect for elders and adults particularly in in responsible positions have not uh
[speaker001:] right for other people and
[speaker002:] I don't think it's had that basic upbringing in a lot of cases and so then you wind up with little brats on your hands
[speaker001:] well how do you think that's happened you think our society's just uh stopped talking out or this uh generation's just kind of changed a little bit uh
[speaker002:] I guess I well the world changes so I mean obviously kids are not the same now as they used to be I mean they're exposed to a whole lot more things they have a whole lot more
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] uh variety of things that they're that they see and do at an earlier age so life is not maybe as simple as it was at one time but but still I think it goes back to a commitment by the parents to to teach uh basic values and basic uh respectful of uh respectfulness of authority
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] and I just don't think that this doesn't always get emphasized anymore uh
[speaker001:] that just isn't coming through is it no I mean I remember uh well it was a big thing when they let girls wear Levi's we used to have to wear dresses and then you had to uh go to dresses they had to be a pantsuit and it was polyester and it had to be matching and
[speaker002:] yeah had to wear dresses didn't you and when it was skirts it was like get down on the floor and we hold the ruler up here and it's no more than so many inches above the knee because it was mini skirt time back there at one time
[speaker001:] yes exactly yes yes so it's really changed it's uh really kind of gone the rounds so I think think that maybe that's effected it to some degree they say you kind of act how you're dressed a little bit so I
[speaker002:] yeah I think that probably does have have something to do with it that it's also
[speaker001:] do uh does does this school your son goes to do they uh required required to wear a uniform or
[speaker002:] no they do not do uniforms although one's where he was between like second and eighth grade did
[speaker001:] uh-huh yeah there are quite a few of your schools