And some parents teach at home because their children are brilliant and public school fails to stretch them.

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Others would suggest home schooling or getting rid of tenure for public school teachers and tying teacher salary much more to the performance of schools.

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Yet the Copely-Fairlawn School District felt she was lying about being a resident, and hired a private eye to follow her, videotaping Williams-Bolar leaving her public housing home and dropping her children off at the suburban school.

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Boyd says she conceived of Schoola when reading about the devastating tax shortfalls and concomitant budget cuts that dropped public school funding by 21% in her home state of California (not to mention Arizona, Hawaii, and South Carolina too).

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