"Most knew it would serve their children's interests to avoid crime — or at least to avoid punishment".
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein have praised the grades as an accurate measure of school quality that will help parents gauge how well schools are serving their children.
Just like any other Nigerian soldier who dies serving, their children have been awarded scholarships and other welfare packages," said spokesperson Rabe Abubakar.
Federal law allows parents to seek public financing for private schools if they can show that the public schools cannot adequately serve their children.
But there is evidence that America and Britain, the countries that combine high female employment with reluctance to involve the state in child care, serve their children especially poorly.
Most of the nation's nearly six million special-education students attend public school, but the law allows parents to seek public financing for private schools if they can show that the public schools cannot adequately serve their children.
And the sight of row upon row of groceries, stacked to the ceiling, surely soothes a lingering sore spot in the soul of Russian women who were compelled, just two decades ago, to serve their children such items as canned seaweed and powdered milk.
While most of the nation's six million special-education students attend public school, the law allows parents to seek public financing for private school if the public schools cannot adequately serve their children, and almost 90,000 students are in private placements — most of them with their public school's agreement.
Dr Ghayasuddin Siddiqui, founder of the Muslim Institute thinktank, says there is a growing feeling among Muslim parents that mainstream schools are not serving their children well: "If schools are focused on raising standards and on ensuring that there is discipline, I think most people are happy with that," he says.
