Continuity of education is so important I can only imagine that it is the military parents that can be thanked for any success at all.

As to community control, I may disagree that community standards would work for the same reason AP stated so well, I think "one size fits all standards" from the Dept. of Education is just as unworkable.  The US isn't all any one thing or another.  What is working in the Bronx won't necessarily work in Four Corners Colorado.  Certainly our children deserve the best we can provide, but that is not necessarily a homogeneous educational program.

Jra

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