tolerate much wider income polarization than any other developed nation. We know that poor people do badly so that when you have a 20% child poverty rate that could easily be 5% (Finland 4%) then you will do badly with education guaranteed. 3) Americans refuse to look at what successful nations do with their public school systems. They insist on American exceptionalism so they flounder around with failing theoretical experiments in testing and privatization rather than doing what successful nations do. As things here seem to have strayed again, Doug's medicine is best take with a reminder of this, which in my mind makes it easier to chalk up Doug's spin of issues. He skoffs at Ms. Dare and Mr. Flannigan yet is himself a supporter and benefactor of what he abhors. Education achievement is much higher in Alberta, because of providing choice, and as a result, the Alberta's public education system, is much more superior to any other public education system in Canada. In the public education system, the garden variety reading disorders, are taken care of, to bring the students up to par, where they become fair to good readers, compared to any other province. By providing choice throughout the system, parents are able to seek the best education for their children, unlike other provinces, where there call it a day, when students achieved a 50 %, and than hold press conferences boasting achievement in the sea of mediocrity. Personally, every family that moved to Alberta, has nothing