Roberts concludes by calling for a legislature «that doesn't hate traditional public schools,» by which she means one that is focused on «giving all parents» the «choice of getting
a decent education in the public schools — the ones that most Arizona students attend.»
The article, by Jonathan Mahler, was about the heroic efforts of Ramón González, the principal of M.S. 223, a
public middle
school in the South Bronx, to make his
school a place where his young charges can get a
decent education and thus, perhaps, a better life.
Great place to live, but no good building site that is anywhere near a good commute, extremely high cost of housing ($ 500k average for a basic 50 year old tract home), no
decent public transit, over-all poor
education levels
in the
public schools.