The curriculum is standardized to minimize disruption from mobility. Reading recovery works, so they use it in every elementary school. There are none of disparities between schools that exist with stateside inner city and suburban schools. Three-fourths of the teachers have master s degrees and ten years experience. Parents are made to feel welcome.
Expectations are high.
Says third grade teacher Darryl Levin, I expect every single one of my kids to go to college and get a professional job. The number who do is well above average. After all, every student takes algebra and geometry, two years of foreign language, and three years of science. We neither can, nor want to, duplicate military conditions. The bottom line, they say, is that no one knows for sure.