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>The incentive to succeed starts at parents having to pay, ending with the students being quite aggressively challenged to actually deliver on exams.

Responsible parents should challenge their kids to learn regardless if the school is public or not, if they care about the future of their children.

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This is the issue. At least in the States, even if a lot of parents want to encourage their kids and be involved in their education they can't because they're too busy just trying to survive. And then you have the kids who couldn't give two shits about school when they gotta get straight to work in order to help make the money to help keep their families fed. If we want to fix schools, we need to fix the underlying social issues.

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